Your GloriaFood website shuts down too - here's the plan for it

If you pay $9/month for GloriaFood's Sales Optimized Website, that site is hosted on GloriaFood's infrastructure - and Oracle shuts that infrastructure down entirely on 30 April 2027. The same applies to ordering widgets embedded on a site you host yourself: the widget's back end goes dark even though your pages stay up. The plan has three parts: confirm who controls your domain, choose where the next site lives, and switch your ordering links before the deadline - not after it.

What exactly stops working?

• The GloriaFood-hosted website - pages, menu, and ordering, all served from the servers being switched off
• Ordering widgets on your own site - your pages stay up, but the ordering inside them stops
• Ordering links - every GloriaFood ordering URL in your Google Business Profile, Instagram bio, and printed QR codes dies with the servers

That last one is the silent failure: a QR code on table six that scans to nothing, months after you stopped thinking about it. Part of any migration is an audit of everywhere your ordering link lives.

The domain question - check this today

Everything else on this page can wait a month. This can't: find out whose name your domain is registered in. Log into the registrar, or ask whoever set the site up. If it's yours, you're fine - a domain you control can point anywhere, and your web presence survives the move intact. If it's not in your control, getting it transferred while every party still exists and answers email is the most valuable thing you can do this week.

Where should the next website live?

• A replacement platform with a storefront built in. The straightforward path for most independents - your ordering page is your web presence, on your domain. Storekit gives every restaurant a branded ordering storefront; other platforms bundle sites too.
• Your own site, with new ordering embedded. If you already run a site you like, keep it - replace the GloriaFood widget with your new platform's ordering link and the rest of the site doesn't change.

Either way, the sequencing matters: new ordering live first, then repoint the domain and update every link - Google Business Profile, social bios, aggregator listings, printed QR codes - then let GloriaFood's version go dark, unmissed.

Frequently asked questions

Does my GloriaFood website shut down with the platform?

Yes - it's hosted on the infrastructure Oracle is switching off on 30 April 2027. Embedded ordering widgets on self-hosted sites stop working too.

Do I keep my domain?

If it's registered in your name, yes. Confirm at your registrar now - a domain in someone else's name is the first thing to fix.

Do I lose my Google presence?

Not if you keep the domain and put a working site back on it. Lose the domain, and you start from zero.

Your website is how guests who don't know you find you. Don't let it expire with someone else's servers. Start the move, or export your data first.