Can anyone explain the best way to move an entire site to a new hosting company/server? I already have my Forum datatbase in MySQL figured out...I just need to find out how to do the rest. My site is created using Joomla 1.5 if that makes a difference. Thanks in advance.
If your website is hosted in linux server with cPanel 10 or higher then you can move your whole website including databases directly to the hosting provider that gives cPanel 10 or higher control panel. You will just need to contact the new hosting provider and give them a username and password of your cpanel.
If you don't have cPanel then just download your web site contents via FTP and upload it on your new Host server and then restore MySQL database.
The other option to get trouble free migration is to ask your new web host whether they would transfer your website.
If you have shell access on both of your old an new servers, you can try packing your site content (e.g., into a tarball) and dump your mysql db, then transfer it to another one using wget and restore.