Hi Todd,
First up, i am surprised cleardb won’t allow you to upgrade the plan 🙁 that’s…odd.
Second, you can use any of back up plugins and back up your entire site to an online storage such as dropbox. Once the back up I done, you can restore the backup after creating a new WordPress site with the cleardb plan. That’s what I would do.
About the connection string, I am afraid I don’t know anything about that. I am not much of a database developer.
First up, that response clarifies so many things. Thank you, a lot!
One follow up questions.
When you say images, does that mean all media? If I upload videos, audio and any other media, will they all be stored on Azure?