Hi Milton,
If you are already flipped your Super affiliate switch then make sure you add your hostgator affiliate ID in APS back office under Add/Edit IDs. And also make sure you uncheck Forced Hosting or Forced Matrix in Tissa's "Secret" GDI Sign-up Sauce Ingredients.
Make sure you are able to put your Hostgator User Name in Add/Edit IDs in APS backoffice. If you are not able to type your Hostgator Affiliate ID then contact Gary. Once you all done these steps then ask you referral to join hostgator and you will get commission as per hostgator which is 1-5 sign up $50 and so on
With regards
Jampal

Hello. I believe people will actually want to change from GDI to HostGator on free will, unless they are making a lot of money from GDI. I mean, Hostgator is cheaper and has a several more functions. It is somewhat easier to use and do stuff. It has a bigger limit of data storage and bandwidth.

You could encourage your downline to keep their GDI domain, change its nameserver to point to HostGator DNS and host the domain on hostgator, without canceling the GDI account.

Although they would have to pay an extra ~$9, they wouldn't lose all the efforts they went though advertising the current domain and they would take advantage of HostGator features. However, they would have to forfeit the people search engine page and the presell page (they would still be able to use the custom search engine pages, embedding the widgets on blogs, for instance. I hope Tissa make some changes on the system to allow people from GDI who changed nameservers to point to other hosting companies but maintained their GDI accounts to upload the people search engine and the presell pages to their new hosting service.

Hi Milton,
This is not a bad idea at all. I think you should encourage him to keep his GDI account, and work on helping him with tips and ideas on that. In the meantime, while people have already answered the question that you asked in some ways, I had a slightly different aspect that I wanted to cover - something I had problems with myself, and I think this info will come in handy for your downline member.
Hope the following tip helps anyone who is contemplating doing the same.
When I switched my SE from  GDI to HG, I had quite a few problems, mainly because I didn't have the right info from HG. The problem was with the DNS settings in the APS back office. The typical format that is represented there is: http://gator486(no. may vary).hostgator.com/yourHGuseraccountname
Now, when you get an HG account, this is not the format that is given to you in the welcome email. In fact, you will never get this, unless you ask for it specifically from the HG tech support. So what will happen then is that you will keep getting an error in the APS back office - saying the cpanel username is not valid, etc. I almost tore my hair out in frustration!
I had to be online with HG chat quite a few times, before they understood what I was asking for.
So, it's important that your APS referral checks his/her APS back office and find this number under his step 2. After that, he/she needs to contact HG chat with this format and get the complete info. With that info, this setup will be a breeze - otherwise, prepare for a harrowing time!

Best wishes,

Somesh.

Last edited by Somesh Thakur (2009-12-26 09:27:12)

Actually, nothing has to be forfeited.  My GDI domain is pointing to my HG nameservers for webhosting so I can keep the same domain name for my people search engine and used HG for step 2 to host my blog.   This could be done with Trish's help.

Somesh, my cpanel username was fine as it was with no additional support from HG needed.  Not sure why it wasn't the case for you.

Thanks for your all your responses.  No, my referral doesn't have to drop GDI for any reason.  They can do GDI domain forwarding to HG domain or point to HG nameservers for hosting.

I'm looking at the system mechanics whether if my referral repeats step 2, would they be offered HG since I have the SA switch?  Nobody has provided this answer yet.  If this is the case, then there is not much they have to do except to delete step 2 and redo it.  When I deleted my search engine in step 2, I was asked to fill in information for GDI because my sponsor doesn't have HG or the SA switch.  She is probably not even part of ACME anymore either.

This is similiar to what Tissa had asked people to do to delete some consumer guide pages to fullfil FTC requirements.

Milton

Last edited by Milton Cai (2009-12-27 00:31:49)

Hi Milton,
I didn't mean the cpanel username was a problem. That was fine. But that was the error that came up in my APS back office. I couldn't figure out why.
Then I realized that the format I was putting the cpanel address in was wrong. I needed the format which I shared here (from the APS back office) - http://gator486.hostgator.com/username
Earlier I kept trying just the username, and it didn't work.
I had to get this proper format from a HG chat session. I thought to share this, in case this happened to anyone else. I passed this on to someone else here at the forum who asked me to help out, and they were able to benefit from this as well.
Hope that explains it!
Somesh.

Thanks Gary for your valuable input on using HG to get immediate commissions and GDI for residual income.   I see how GDI Forced Hosting is great in allowing us to switch between HG and GDI to offer new referrals.   The benefit of HG is it allows my referral to create a blog and make use of the customizable search engine boxes or add unique content.   Maybe it would be more clearer if I put down the different case scenarios.

1) new referral
2) past referrals signed up with GDI but want to convert to HG
3) past referrals signed up with HG but want to add GDI
4) referral is offered multiple HG, GDI or lunarpages during sign up (not available yet)

My question is mainly on #2.   I have past referrals who had signed up for GDI but I wanted them to add HG as well.  So, is the only action that is needed from them is to redo step 2 since I have the SAS?  If they delete step 2 and signed up again, would HG be offered to them if my GDI forced hosting is off regardless if they had signed up with GDI previously?

Milton

Last edited by Milton Cai (2009-12-27 22:24:19)

Gary,

I have a question on HG sign ups.  When a new referral signs up for HG on step 2, what would their referral be offered on step 2 if they're not in GDI yet and don't have the Super Affiliate Switch?  Would the second level referrals be offered my GDI username or ACME instead?  Also, if a new referral doesn't sign up for HG, how long do they have to wait before they are offered GDI in the current setup even though forced GDI hosting is disabled?

Thanks,
Milton

Last edited by Milton Cai (2010-01-05 06:18:13)

Just a correction here, in case anyone comes across this issue again... Somesh, the address you have listed will not work either. It is missing the ~ character.

For your Alternate URL to work, it must be in this format: http://gatorXXX.hostgator.com/~username

I am not sure why you didn't get this in your welcome email Somesh, as it is listed in mine, along with my cPanel address.

*Slaven

Last edited by SlavenB (2010-01-20 02:54:10)

My welcome email dates back to June 2009, since this is when I registered my first domain with HG.

Strange.

This is exactly what the beginning of that email looks like:

EDIT: Thank goodness for GMail labels; I would be totally lost without them.

Last edited by SlavenB (2010-01-20 03:11:18)

Well all I can say is, I feel like a right Nog. I went into my back office and clicked on my brand your search engine in step 2 and it looked like this ( Step 2 (optional):Done! Brand Your Search Engine Cost: $10 ) Step 1, 2, & 3 are ticked, any way as I was saying I went to step 2 and clicked on it then deleted my GDI who is hosting my website and found myself looking at this (Dear Teresa Van kuylenburg, You just deleted hosting for your search engine and this domain name: Teresa-People-Search.ws "Free People Searches" GDI). IMPORTANT: You must repeat Step 2 (Monetize) with your updated domain information to maintain your Display Rate!
So now you can see why I feel like a right nog, can you please help me to get back to my GDI to do my website hosting please. Thank you

teresataumau

Last edited by teresataumau (2010-02-07 07:54:00)

Hello, Show Me How,:)
           Just wanted to say thanks for the link you sent me, so that I could save the (codec) onto my pc. I really appreciated your quick resonse and help.
Unfortunately, I'm having another problem which I am certain you already know the answer to by now because this is not a recent post.
I used my (GDI) url-link to complete step two in the back office area.
I want to create a blog so that I can insert my people-search landing page onto it.
The only two options to use to do that are: Hostgator and GVO.
How do I accomplish this by the fact that I'm using (GDI) as my main referral-host?:)