today i decided that i wanted to move one of my sites from one VPS to another. I originally started it the very hard way. I was going in VIA ftp and downloading the entire folder to my hard drive, and then upload the entire folder to the new server. The of course comes the lovely job of setting permissions and that good stuff But before i did all that i decided to search google a bit to see if i can copy an enire folder via SSH from one vps to the other. and yes i found the way and yes it worked and took only about 15 minutes. here is what i did on the original server i ssh'ed into the shell and browsed to the folder that the website inside of . I then entered this command scp -rp * username@server:/path/to/dir username@server will be replaced with your ' ' followed by the path where you want it to copy etc.. /home/admin/website/ once you hit enter you will be asked for password on the new server , enter it and you are good to go. 4 hours of work brought down to 15 minutes. of course do not forget to export the database on the old server to the new one. hope this helped someone today as it helped me. cheers