Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Web Hosting : Need to Transfer Entire Message Board When I Change Servers. HOW?

[Genia]

Ok, here's the deal. I'm incredibly sick of Endore.com. My site is down again. They're not answering their phone. They don't respond to support emails. The only reason I've stayed so long is because I have a message board on my website that I don't want to lose in the transfer. It took a long time to build that membership and the content. I need reliability and a flawless transfer of my content. From what I've been finding on the internet, this looks like a hacker job. Is there anyway to hide who my server is when people do a WHOIS inquiry on my domain name? If there is, I'll want to do that with my next host -- just in case it was my website that was the target of the hack.

Thanks!

[idologicJeff]

If you have CPanel you can do a CPanel back up of the full site and that will cover the MySQL DB which more message boards use to store the posts. (Assuming this is the case)

Another more manual way of doing this is to use mysql dump to dump the contents and to restore by piping the contents into a mysql command.

I hope this helps. If you need more detailed assistance, I'd be happy to provide it.

Cheers
Jeff

[MStar]

Most forum software can export your data to a tar.gz file, and you just reinstall forums on the other server, import the tar.gz, and you're on your way!

[kjmz]

I could do it for you. Just tell me which database and more details.

[iTec Hosts]

Download any images and hacks you may have on your current server to a file on your HDD.

Use phpMyAdmin and download a database dump.

When you get to the new server, upload your forum and your database dump.

Log into your admin area and do your board customization (skins, images etc). Usually you can have most boards looking as they did on the previous server within a half hour of the initial installation.

[Sticks]

iTec Hosts is right. I think it's one of the best methods of transferring your board.

That's the method I did on most of my sites also.

[J Rodriguez]

Do a full site back up
and a MySQL Back up and simple Restore....

That should do the trick... assuming that you arent on Cpanel-Cpanel then your just one click away.