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[Ninav]

Hi Ya'll
I need a consultant to help me migrate all of my accounts over to my new server. I have some special set ups and need someone that can be available during the transfer in case anything goes wrong.

Can anyone make a referral on this?
thx
-Nina

[Oceanworld]

Server-to-server Cpanel transfer is pretty standard and most server admins can do that no problem. Perhaps you should state what's your 'special setup' so they know what they're in for

[Ninav]

Originally Posted by Oceanworld

Server-to-server Cpanel transfer is pretty standard and most server admins can do that no problem. Perhaps you should state what's your 'special setup' so they know what they're in for

Yep.. I should know better.

# I have several sites with dedicated SSL certificates.
# RVAdmin for Cpanel needs to be installed and configured on new host.
# Shared SSL

Will be moving about 60 sites from Cpanel to Cpanel host. I want to minimize the time that mail is out of synch.


thx
Nina

[Website Rob]

A good ServerAdmin shouldn't have any problems but it could take up to 6 hrs. to complete. Experience has shown that about 12 - 15 sites per hr. get transferred, depending upon size and transfer speed, but other work can be done while that is going on. Would be a good time to have some Server hardening done as well.

[mripguru]

Originally Posted by Ninav

Yep.. I should know better.

# I have several sites with dedicated SSL certificates.
# RVAdmin for Cpanel needs to be installed and configured on new host.
# Shared SSL

Will be moving about 60 sites from Cpanel to Cpanel host. I want to minimize the time that mail is out of synch.


thx
Nina

RVSkin you mean? Most competent server admins can do the job for you with no problems at all .

[Scott.Mc]

Someone who is good at moving can do this with virtually no downtime.

Setting your ttls too 10 in /var/named you can use the replace command too do this, or even perl -pi -e

Give this a day or two before moving, and then just rsync everything including /var/lib/mysql, /var/cpanel

Once the intial one is done, do it again, even do it a few times so it only takes a few seconds too complete.

Change your dns, and then rsync once more and your done.

Downtime = 0, if you have really active database sites, just add mod_rewrite in apache before the last dns change, too redirect too an offline page. Rsync the data and change the dns, then you are finished, again at most 10seconds downtime.

I have executed this method plenty of times without any issues.

[and1c]

Originally Posted by Scott.Mc

Someone who is good at moving can do this with virtually no downtime.

Setting your ttls too 10 in /var/named you can use the replace command too do this, or even perl -pi -e

Give this a day or two before moving, and then just rsync everything including /var/lib/mysql, /var/cpanel

Once the intial one is done, do it again, even do it a few times so it only takes a few seconds too complete.

Change your dns, and then rsync once more and your done.

Downtime = 0, if you have really active database sites, just add mod_rewrite in apache before the last dns change, too redirect too an offline page. Rsync the data and change the dns, then you are finished, again at most 10seconds downtime.

I have executed this method plenty of times without any issues.

I would go with server wizards...

they run all my servers and have doene some very complex clustering and moving tasks for me on several occasions when I did not want to try it myself.....

highly recommended

[Ninav]

Originally Posted by and1c

I would go with server wizards...

they run all my servers and have doene some very complex clustering and moving tasks for me on several occasions when I did not want to try it myself.....

highly recommended

Would that be serverwizards.com ?

Clustering sounds interesting. Did you setup one server to control another? I'd really prefer to do that so I could move over the more complex sites one at a time.

Thanks!
Nina

[Ninav]

Has anyone tried
hostworks.ca ?

[DataDork]

If you are looking for a topnotch cPanel expert, I would recommend Jonathan from ConfigServer Services. They handle all of my cPanel servers.

[ayksolutions]

Originally Posted by DataDork

If you are looking for a topnotch cPanel expert, I would recommend Jonathan from ConfigServer Services. They handle all of my cPanel servers.

Yep, Jonathan's a moderator on Cpanel forums. You can also give www.got-management.com a shot. They will definitely help you without a glitch and harden your server for you should you need it.

[Ninav]

Thanks a bunch. I will check both of those out. It's such a worry to have to migrate all these sites. I have never done it before and I really just want to have it done right.
thx
Nina

[RayWomack]

http://totalserversolutions.com has some of the best cPanel experts around.

One the TSS guy's has http://eth0.us which has very good articles.