The least painful way to migrate from Joomla 1.0.x to 1.5 is to setup a totally new website and just copy and paste content. (okay, I admit, I don't have much content on the site I admin so this will be relatively easy.)
But, my question is. We have a Bronze account, and there is one spare MySQL database. Does this mean that in Fantastico I can just install a second instance of Joomla . (ie, existing is 1.0.x), copy my stuff accross, then point the address to the new site?
If it is all that simple, I could simply install a second instance of Joomla, copy my stuff accross at my liesure, then when it all looks okay, simply point the domain address to this new site.
(note, this is for http://www.bsoa.myzen.co.uk/ which uses the domain name http://www.sharpies.org.uk)
Or, is this not possible, and I actually have to create a whole new Bronze account, (ie for example register http://www.bsoa_new.myzen.co.uk) (But this would then mean paying for a second account)
At the moment it looks like the only option is for me to run a local webserver on my desk, install Joomla and MySQL etc etc... build my site locally, test it locally.......
but then there would be the big risk for the upload, as I would have to delete all the existing site online, then install Joomla 1.5.... and somehow upload everything, and hope it works.....
Please help.