After more problems with my hosting, I just signed up with Site5 to try them out. Wish me luck....

One question.

Since I have never moved my site from one place to another, how do I go about it?

Do I transfer the dns info BEFORE I actually cancel or after I cancel?

Anything I should watch out for?

Thanks,
Mike
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You'd want to move your site over, change the DNS info, wait for changes to propagate, then cancel the other account.

A tip of advice...

If you have shell access to your server (your current)you can make the moving process fairly painless. You log in, and execut a tar command on your public_html folder. Then gzip it so that the file would be something.tar.gz

Run ftp 555.555.555.555 (your IP for your new site)
When you get in, you just send the tar/gz file to your server. Go into the CPanel on your site5 account and extract the files.

I'm not sure of the exact commands, but if you find a help doc on tar and gzip, you will be alright . I belive ftp --help will give you the FTP commands you will need.

The best way is to move the site first to the new account and check it. Once it's working again, change your DNS to point to the new host. Wait a few days, then cancel your old account.

The main thing to watch out for is a final mail check before you cancel. If you get a lot of mail some will no doubt end up at your old host while the address bounces back and forth.

If you use perl also check permissions and paths to perl in case they differ at the new host - maybe modules too if you're using something out of the ordinary.

There's not much that will be different really. Once you move a site around a few times it gets to be something you do with your eyes shut.

Greg Moore

Originally posted by gnorthey00
A tip of advice...

Run ftp 555.555.555.555 (your IP for your new site)
When you get in, you just send the tar/gz file to your server. Go into the CPanel on your site5 account and extract the files.


Or if you have shell access on the new account wget (wget <url>) the file from the old and untar at the command line.

Originally posted by gnorthey00
I'm not sure of the exact commands, but if you find a help doc on tar and gzip, you will be alright . I belive ftp --help will give you the FTP commands you will need.

If you have shell access at both your old and your new host, try these commands:

1. Log into SSH/telnet on your old hosting account, go the the html root folder, and type in the following command:
tar -cpzf transfer.tar.gz *

2. Now login to SSH/telnet on your new host account and cd into the root html folder. Type in the following command:
wget domain.com/transfer.tar.gz
(where domain.com is your domain still hosted at your old host)

3. Wait for the transfer to finish. Then type:
tar -xzf transfer.tar.gz

4. Fix any broken CGI scripts

Hope this helps! :)

Thanks for the help....

Mike
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Ehehe, switching hosts is really a bite in the rear end, that's why I always ask people of their views of different hosts to see which one is best.

If Site5 don't work, you might want to try MediaTemple.net, they're a sweet host I hear, I don't think it's very costly either.

But good luck with Site5! :cartman: