Planning Movable Type hosting and a supported migration

1. Identify the Movable Type release, license and publishing mode you intend to run. Use the requirements for that release, not old instructions for Movable Type 5 or 6.
2. Confirm that the hosting environment supports the required execution model, Perl modules, database and scheduled publishing. Ask us to review these requirements if they are not exposed in the plan details.
3. Inventory existing blogs, templates, uploaded assets, plugins and published output. Back up the database and all application/content files before a version change.

Use the publisher's current package and installation or upgrade instructions. Configure the application URL, static assets, database and publishing directories with narrowly scoped permissions. Do not enable obsolete runtime versions or install an old Softaculous bundle merely because it is listed. A fresh installation and a migration of existing publishing data are separate tasks.

1. Run the vendor's supplied requirements check in the intended environment and remove or restrict diagnostic tools afterward.
2. Create a test entry, publish it and inspect the generated output, media and archive links. Test scheduled publishing if used.
3. Check an editor account, comments or forms where enabled, and any PHP dynamic publishing separately. Confirm the recovery backup contains both data and templates.

• Preparing for your free website migration to us
• Changing PHP versions, extensions and application limits
• Creating and monitoring cron jobs and scheduled tasks
• Creating Web Hosting backups and planning a restore

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