Where every C Magazine site, domain and archive lives after the move off WP Engine and Rackspace. Status reflects checks run on Oct 3–4, 2026.
Owner: C Publishing. Holds all C Magazine domains; nameservers point to Cloudflare.
Account CMagazine.US. DNS for magazinec.com and the forwarding domains; one Bulk Redirect list sends them all to magazinec.com (301).
WordPress, theme Newstar. Site 292830. Cache and WAF at Rocket's edge.
Local copies of offloaded images removed Oct 4 (94,983 files, 17.3 GB). Database 357 MB.
Bucket magazinecwpenginesite (us-west-1), served at cdn.cmagazine.us via WP Offload Media Pro.
≈ 64 GB of site media.
Site 292841. Branded content.
Site 296200. Holiday Gift Guide; media in S3 under gifts/.
1.49 GB on disk (database 13 MB) + 0.27 GB in S3.
Reference copy for the C Magazine team: site 346644. Visitors who are not signed in are sent to magazinec.com; the team signs in at csocialfront.com/login and sees the full site. Hidden from search engines (noindex). Images in S3 under csocialfront/, served by the C Magazine CDN. Sample of 26 pages: 417 images, none broken.
team only · not indexed
Online newsstand. Cloudflare record set to DNS only (grey cloud), as Squarespace requires.
Source: Cloudflare, Rocket.net and AWS APIs; live HTTP checks, Oct 3–4, 2026.
| Property | Where | Size | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
magazinec.com | Rocket.net disk | ≈ 16 GB | After removing 17.3 GB of local image copies already served from S3 (Oct 4). A temporary pre-cleanup backup still counts against the plan until it is deleted. |
magazinec.com media | S3 · cmagproduction/ | 40.4 GB | Legacy WP Engine layout; still serves older posts (measured Sep 24) |
magazinec.com media | S3 · wp-content/ | 22.5 GB | Current offloaded uploads |
magazinec.com media | S3 · 2026/, 2020/, 2022/ | 1.44 GB | Short-path uploads |
gifts.magazinec.com | Rocket.net disk | 1.49 GB | Includes database (13 MB) |
gifts.magazinec.com media | S3 · gifts/ | 0.27 GB | 1,172 objects |
csocialfront.com | Rocket.net (site 346644) | 0.35 GB | Site and database only |
csocialfront.com media | S3 · csocialfront/ | ≈ 29 GB | All images verified against the WP Engine backup (count and bytes), Oct 5 |
Source: Rocket.net API (disk usage, WP-CLI db size) and AWS S3 listings, Oct 4, 2026; WP Engine portal for csocialfront.
| Domain | Role | DNS | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
magazinec.com | Main site | Cloudflare | live |
cmagazine.us | CDN hostname (cdn.) | Cloudflare | live auto-renew off, expires Jul 20, 2027 |
| magazinec.org · .us · .biz · .media · cmagazine.biz · magazine-c.com · magazine-c.net | Brand domains → 301 to magazinec.com | Cloudflare | live since Sep 24 |
| c-home.com · c-weddings.com · c-formen.com · c-stateofmind.com · shopstudio-c.com | Retired sites → 301 to magazinec.com | Cloudflare | live since Oct 3 |
csocialfront.com | Internal archive copy (email sign-in) | Cloudflare → Rocket.net | moved Oct 7 |
coasthousemalibu.com | Personal site, managed by C Magazine | Wix | out of scope |
ccaliforniastyle.com | Unused, not responding | Network Solutions | decide |
Source: Network Solutions domain export (Oct 3, 2026); Cloudflare zones; HTTP/HTTPS/www checks.
All legacy backups go to s3://magazinecwpenginesite/HISTORICAL WEBSITE ARCHIVES/ (location set by C Magazine), storage class Glacier Deep Archive. Each upload is verified by size against the source before anything local is deleted.
| Site | Contents | Size | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
cmagproduction (old magazinec.com) | Full-site export, Jul 2024 | 10.66 GB | archived |
cmagproduction | Core files + database (Oct 2) | 113 MB | archived |
cmagproduction | WebP image copies (336k files) | 8.96 GB | archived |
cformen | WP Engine full backup (ZIP) | 2.86 GB | archived |
chome | WP Engine full backup (ZIP) | 5.06 GB | archived |
cweddings | WP Engine full backup (ZIP) | 4.40 GB | archived |
csocialfront | WP Engine full backup (ZIP) + working copy on Rocket.net | 34.2 GB | archived ZIP · Rocket copy live |
magazinec · cmagsandbox · cmagazine | Older WP Engine installs | 3.1 GB | pending |
cmagstaging (Staging) · ticket5147281 (Dev) | Other environments of the C-Magazine Redesign site | — | pending |
Source: AWS S3 listing and WP Engine portal, Oct 4, 2026. Glacier Deep Archive: about $0.002 per GB per month; restores take 12–48 hours.
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| Oct 8, 2026 | csocialfront.com is team-only: visitors without a WordPress session go to magazinec.com; sign-in stays open at /login (requested by Sandy). Staging and dev installs won't be archived. |
| Oct 7, 2026 | WebP image copies of cmagproduction archived in S3 (8.96 GB, verified). All five legacy sites are now archived. |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Home page ad (LATEST) no longer clipped: the theme's 10 px offset was removed in the child theme. |
| Oct 7, 2026 | csocialfront.com moved to Cloudflare DNS and Rocket.net; Rackspace DNS no longer in use. |
| Oct 6, 2026 | This page moved to a permanent link. |
| Oct 4–5, 2026 | WP Engine backups of cformen, chome, cweddings and csocialfront archived in S3. 17.3 GB of duplicate images removed from Rocket.net after matching each one against S3. |
| Oct 3, 2026 | Five brand domains moved to Cloudflare and redirected to magazinec.com. cmagproduction core and full-site export archived. |