Hello, I have a host which is hosting my 50+ sites with 5 Gig+ data . Its been a year since i started with this host and the service was just great. Lately since past 2 months i have been experiencing several down times, and database errors from the host. Had tried to contact the host regarding the same but the error reoccurs after few days. Now that the time period of 1 year is near to its end and the invoice is about to be dued, I am planning to shift to another host. While checking the sites and files hosted in the current host I found that more than 50+ sites are hosted currently with the host and the files are mroe than 5 gigs. Now i am really worried about the whole transfer process. Most of the sites are wp sites and other db sites. Is it a wise decision to do so or shall i go on with the same host?? Note: I have already purchased another hosting solution .
Ouch, 5gb is huge. I'm not sure how difficult it would be to transfer all of that. If you have ssh access you could use the zip command to compress all of the files that ask permission from both hosts to use 5gb of their connection than use the wget command on the new host to download at 100mb/s then extract it. That would save a lot of time. Compressing and extracting the 5gb zip would use a lot of CPU usage on both hosts though, so you should ask permission to do so.
Any host caring their clients would do it. Ask them to do it manually using pkgacct and provide it to you, then ask your new host to move it to their servers, and they would do that.
Assuming your current host is running cPanel then other cPanel hosts should be able to restore a cPanel backup file for you. So the whole moving process should not be very difficult at all. I would still of course confirm with whomever you choose for your new host that they're willing to move the account for you or restore cPanel backup files for you. Best of luck with your search.
If I were at your place I would definitely pay someone to do all the transfer for you ! Try to find an expert as he may cause you big problems if he doesnt know what he is doing !