I've got this server that I have to move 300 accounts off of to another dedicated server. I've been using cpanels account mover - only a few failures so far for some of the really large sites - I'll probably try and use scp for those after the rest are done.

Here's the question though.

Most of these accounts fall into two categories - they are either reseller accounts - or shared accounts belonging to a reseller.

As a result there are a fair amount of IPs in use - including the main shared IP from the original server.

I was told I could take the IPs from the original server and add them to the new server (this is all within the same datacenter) and then remove them from the old server and voila - account move complete.


Thats fine - but what about the main server IP on the original server? Is it possible to take an extra IP on that server - make it the main "shared" IP on the server and remove the original "shared" IP to the new server?

It makes sense sorta to be able to do that - but I could be wrong as usual :)

Anyone done this before?

T.i.a

Well your question though somewhat detailed is also somewhat vague.

as far as the data move I would move all the data in a tar file or even use rsynch to move it.

The IP's are easy if you have root access to both servers and know what your doing. I would move all data and test it first then make sure all the config files are changed on both servers ... double check this step .... then triple check this step.

Then reboot both servers at the same time.

I have done this many times and so far every time I have done it it has worked.

Did I mention to check the config files more than twice ?

Mark Jervis
admin@protechhosting.com

wow
those config files sound important.

which config files are you talking about?

^^

The config files that are holding your ip's.

On freebsd it would be your /etc/rc.conf files