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Upgrading Your Windows Hosting Account to IIS 7

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Last Updated: May 1, 2015 9:27 AM

This article only applies to Web & Classic Hosting. For more information, see What type of hosting account do I have?

Existing Windows Shared Hosting accounts running IIS 6 can upgrade to IIS 7. For information on IIS 7, see What is IIS 7?

NOTE: IIS 7 is not compatible with FrontPage Extensions or MySQL 4.0 databases.

To Upgrade Your Windows Shared Hosting Account to IIS 7

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Web Hosting.
  3. Next to the account you want to use, click Manage.
  4. From the Tools section, click IIS Management.
  5. Click Upgrade to IIS 7 and then read the on-screen information to make sure you understand the upgrade process.
  6. Click OK.

    NOTE: You cannot downgrade to IIS 6.