Switching from Free hosting to Paid Hosting

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Hey Guys,
I have an active SMF based forum set up on free hosting from Free Web Hosting with PHP, MySQL and cPanel, No Ads . If in future, I want to switch from free hosting to paid hosting, will I have to create a new domain name? If I have to shift URL, what is the way?

Do you already have your domain name mapped with Free Hosting?
In that case just mapping your Domain name with your new hosting A/c will do.

Otherwise if you are using Free Domain name provided by your Free Hosting provider, then you need to get a Domain name too.

Ok, that means that I need a new domain name too.
So to migrate my forum, is it enough to download a backup of my forum and upload it to the new URL, and make my previous URL as a redirect site?

Yeah

thanks! will let you know if I run into any complications, once I actually decide to migrate my forum due to disk space.

BTW What type of Forum? Link please

A discussion platform for students, inspired by TDF. The Educational Forum - Index