Starting after X-mas, I will be in the process of putting online some new servers in our Hurricane Electric cabinet, and I will be requiring the expertise of someone who has done such a move in the past (cpanel to cpanel move)

Looking at moving 2 servers, total about 800 to 900 customers

If you've done this in the past, and would like to earn an extra few $$, email me @ garyp@www-hosting.net and we can discuss it and setup a timeline of events.

Prob looking at 1-2 people if that's enough. Looking for complete migration, meaning a very smooth transistion, where all the ips and accounts will be moved over within 24 hours along with DNS (instant)

(Like the VO moves and prob alot of other nocs)

How much $$$ ? :D

Since VO has done it tons of times, why not ask them? I'm sure one of the techs will do it since they probably have a nice script written up :)

A team of about 3 others and I migrated over 200 raqs within a week during normal business hours.. raq to raq. Let me know if I can be of assistance.
(this was during the L1on worm attacks..)

Actually I am moving from VO, and i did happen to ask them but they declined

It sounds reasonable for me, but look at it from VO's perspective, they are too busy and in the end, they loose a customer. Its sorta funny how when they were Ultraspeed, they were so inclined to write a custom script to move my customers from a raq to their boxes with cpanel, but now when i leave, they wont lift a finger, even if the price is right.

We have experience doing this. If you want us to do it, send me a PM or Email with your offer.

Ok, this tells you basically everthing you need to know (we have done a ton of these)
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Ok, before you move anything else, move this file

/etc/groups

or when you move your user files (/home) the ownerships will be lost

then..

/etc/domainalias
/etc/domainips
- edit the ips
/etc/localdomains
/etc/named.conf
- if moving to a 7.1 box , remember to copy the 'key' entry from the 7.1 file into the old 6.2 file and add this entry as well:
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controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { "key"; };
};
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/etc/shadow
- This will revert your root password to the same root passwd as the old box
/etc/passwd
/etc/proftpd.conf
- edit the ips
/etc/proftpd (dir)
/etc/userdomains
/etc/valiases (dir)
/etc/vfilters (dir)
/etc/ssl (dir or sometimes a symlink to /usr/local/ssl)

/var/cpanel (dir)
/var/lib/mysql
- stop mysql before copy this one, and restart it after, the mysql root password will be reverted to the old one, so it's a good idea to edit /root/.my.cnf and either enter the old root password, or go to mysql and enter the NEW mysql root password ( mysqladmin -uroot -p<old-password> password <new-password> ), this needs to be done or a mysql error will occur on the user's CPanel
/var/named
/var/spool/cron

/usr/local/ssl (dir)
/usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
- edit the ip's, here the best bet is to bring the file into a text editor, get rid of all the text on the old file up to the FIRST VirtualHost entry (right after <IfDefine SSL> and replace it with the text from the new httpd.conf .. I usually just do a copy/paste in my favorite text editor, if you don't do this, most likely apache will fail.
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists (dir)
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/archives (dir)
/usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend (here just grab any custom skins you might have created .. otherwise, leave it behind)
/usr/local/frontpage (dir)
- inside this dir there is a symlink named 'currentversion@' .. do not copy that, also no need to copy the directory "version4.0" inside that as well

and ....

/home (dir)

restart all services, and you should be all set

if moving to a new machine, but keeping the same IP's .. you will need /usr/ips as well

hope this helps

cheers

Carlos

Carlos, you ruined it for everyone. Sorry everyone, you can't make money this time... Too bad! :)

Sounds like a ton of steps to me... Them seems like it would take forever. LOL!

-Kyle