Hi,

We've been buying up alot of other CPanel hosts and moving their clients to our own servers. One really strange thing that we're finding is that the download/restore time seems to vary so widely from one buyout to another...and not even based on things like how much data is being copied, etc.

Does anyone have a more efficient method of doing this?? Any suggestions or methods would be MOST welcome!

--Tina

The problem is that cPanels move script will move all of the sites at once if you let it. If you wait to edit DNS till it's done, and it took 8 hours, then the 1st site is 8 hours old.

Firstly you'll want to modify TTL's so they are only 1 hour or less. Then wait 24-48 hours to make sure these DNS changes have propagated. Then do one of the following:

Use command line scripts (or do it manually) to backup, restore then edit DNS zone, then move on to the next site. Alternatively you could use cPanels move script to move them all, but watch it in progress. As each site finishes, edit their DNS zones immediately.

If you wanted the absolute fastest way, you'd want to use port forwarding and rsync, not using cPanel's tools at all. But that'd be a lot more work, probably more then it's worth. You could use port forwarding to shave off DNS time though.

Thanks,

Neofree

Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what/how we're doing it. Seems to be very inefficient and also finding that Cpanel fails on a couple of areas, which we've been able to keep up with...its just a huge pain in the ***.

--Tina

The ones that fail via the web tool, use the command line tools instead. They won't fail. Another thing you could do is do the move with cPanel's tools, *then* rsync the files to get more updated files, and then switch DNS or use port forwarding. Take a lot of setup though, again, may not be worth the time.

Thanks,

Neofree