Moving a web site - UK Web Hosting | Dedicated Server Windows and Linux VPS Forum

**Ped** · #1 (**permalink**) 30-12-2007, 19:47

Hi,

I am currently moving web sites over to eUKHost, one web site hosting has an smf forum with a combined coppermine gallery, is it possible to move it all intact? It isnt a very busy forum etc, just some guys I know who wanted a small web site hosting for their angling club.

Ped

**flesso** · #2 (**permalink**) 30-12-2007, 19:54

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Originally Posted by Ped

Hi,

I am currently moving web sites over to eUKHost, one web site hosting has an smf forum with a combined coppermine gallery, is it possible to move it all intact? It isnt a very busy forum etc, just some guys I know who wanted a small web site hosting for their angling club.

Ped

If they are hosted on a cPanel account then all data can be transferred over without any loss, and once everything has been setup here you can then change your dns servers over - that would mean that you've migrated with zero downtime!

If you're hosted on a Windows account then there isn't any utility at this time which will do the automatic migration.

**Ped** · #3 (**permalink**) 30-12-2007, 20:11

Know of any step by step tutorials to do this, is a wee bit over my head.

Is cpanel and linux

Ped

Rock · #4 (**permalink**) 30-12-2007, 20:39

Hey Ped, send an email to the support dept [ support@eukhost.com ] & I assure you that they'll take utmost care of your web site hosting transfer along with the forum & gallery...

**Ped** · #5 (**permalink**) 30-12-2007, 20:42

Well, that would be much better than me attempting it. (If I fry their forum once more, am sure I will be used as biat for the next angling trip).

Thanks for the quick answers guys!

Ped

**247h** · #6 (**permalink**) 31-12-2007, 12:37

Don't be chicken!

If your SMF/Coppermine combination is same as mine then they share the same database (for a common login) so in effect, it's even easier to move than two separate databases ...

Transferring your complete accounts is easy for someone with root access at this end — you didn't say whether you're on shared hosting solution, VPS Hosting or dedicated server? If the first, you can't complete your mission easily so open a ticket to Tech Support providing them with logins for all the remote accounts. If you're having a VPS Hosting or dedicated server it's easy to FTP to the remote server to retrieve a Home Directory backup of each account and install on your new server, complete and intact (including emails, stats, everything).

**Ped** · #7 (**permalink**) 31-12-2007, 14:27

"cluck cluck"

Tech support swung into action and moved one web site hosting over for me last night.

Moving data bases is something I would like to try, but I would like to try it on a non essential data base first, I actually had no idea that it could be done before yesterday, just goes to show that even us chickens learn something new occasionally.