FutureQuest, Inc. is closing our virtual doors on or before July 14th, 2023

[dotk]

For those who can't find another host, Groove is a free alternative...they have paid accounts also, but you can have several fully functional websites for free.

https://groovepages.groovesell.com/a/e7Z7YAZqpvMT

[retroman]

Wow! After 15 years of being so very happy here at Futurequest I am very sorry to hear this news, but for all the reasons listed I totally understand the predicament you are all in. Thank you for those 15 years of great customer support. I would talk to others about Futurequest whenever the question of web hosting came up. I wish I had been more aggressive about it now. I am forced to use Wordpress via Godaddy for an organization I volunteer at, and it is terrible.

I wish you all the very best. ––Will try to find a new home.
"Retroman"

[msealey]

This is sad news. I too have had several sites with FQ since 2003, so 20 years.

Your service has been outstanding. Thanks to everyone.

I have one other site on Pair.com. They are reliable, robust and responsive. Run on FreeBSD.

But shall carefully 'harvest' everyone's recommendations here. Thanks!

Wishing everyone well…

[esllou]

Originally Posted by mromero

I've been around the block and suggest you look at KnownHost. There is a range of plans to suit most anyone. Not the cheapest by far, but not the more expensive either.

on chat with these guys now

I see Terra's suggestion was looking for non-cPanel hosts. Most seem to use cPanel.

[wilkoff]

What does FutureQuest need to do so I can transfer to a different hosting service?

[RedPanda]

Originally Posted by esllou

I've just noticed you are saying "on or before July 14th". Can you guarantee a certain amount, e.g. 7 days, because having the plug pulled without decent warning wouldn't be good.

I have one client that is a very large Transatlantic NGO, hosting a week in Washington DC starting July 24. How can you say "on or before July 14." Aside from the fact that I'm sure you could have told us earlier (like you didn't know?), you must be able to give a definite date of closure.

I won't even go into the legal ramifications, but we have trusted you for more than 20 years, and you're just flushing us all down the toilet without any regard for our OWN businesses.

No hearts and flowers from me.

[retroman]

I was on line with them too. But I didn't have enough information about my FQ Visionary account to compare. They asked if I used a Cpanel or used a command line. I am afraid I am not that technical. Can we get the specs for our old FQ packages?

[retroman]

I just found the specs for the Visionary package. The links at the top of the message board still work.

[rossH]

I would second the suggestion for pair.com. They've been around forever too, and their support is excellent. They do all kinds of accounts, including shared hosting - I have half a dozen legacy sites running on one account.

And they allow remote access to the database - which means you can migrate a WordPress site in stages if you know how (I'll post how in a following comment).

AND, I think Pair techs will migrate your site for you - probably a charge but worth it to get it done right. I may be wrong but fingers crossed. I have 3 sites to move over now so I may look into this and let you know.

[rossH]

I wish I could find the guy who wrote this to give him credit but I can't. But here is a way to migrate a WP site to a different host, testing first without a leap in the dark:

* Use phpMyAdmin both ends.
* Export database from old site. Import to the new site database. Pay attention to database names.
* Change wp-config.php in old site to point to database on new site.
* Check old site runs using database at new site (make new db remote access)
* Download WordPress installation from old site (includes uploads, themes, plugins - and config.php)
* Unpack WordPress installation to new site
* Check wp-config.php on new site has new database details
* Change the nameservers to point to the new site
* After propagation, change db to local if desire

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For email, I'm afraid you're on your own. I'n finally going to separate email from the web host, and Fastmail.com seems to do that very well. Been thinking about it for two years, finally got the motivation - deep breath

Good luck, everyone. It was a wonderful family.