Anybody knows how to transfer Vb forums from 1 shared server to another?

I'm using vBulletin Version 3.6.0. Anybody knows the steps to transfer from 1 shared server to another w/o losing the database?

 

1) Close the forum on server1 to avoid posts being added etc
2) copy the files across from server 1 to server 2
3) copy the DB across using phpmyadmin or similar
4) edit the config files on server2 to update the DB username/pass/location
5) Login to forum on server 2 and re-open the forum

That's usually it...

 

I appreciated your help. But my DB only allows import up to 8mb, what should I do?

 

use SSH to do it assuming you have SSH access. If you do not ask your host to do the import.

 

Repair and Optimize database, then on SSH...

su root
Give password.

mysqldump -uroot -pPASSWORD DATABASENAME > /full_path/back-up.sql

Then on new server...

wget URL to back-up.sql
then
mysql -uroot -pPASSWORD DATABASENAME < /full_path/back-up.sql -f

Of course you should always have back-up copies on your computer!!!

Once it's set-up, on the old forums, link to the IP address URL and update the DNS records.

 

Something I forgot to mention you can set a low TTL in the dns zone and give that a few days. That way switch over to the new server will not take as long on the DNS side of things.