I have a reseller account and wanted to move my websites onto the new server. is there a how to somewhere that i can read to learn this? all sites have cpanel.
well hostgator doesnt have the transfer option with WHM in their reseller accounts. so i need to do it another way i guess.
reseller WHM does not have any transfer option. You have to go into each account and do the backup manually.
thats what i ended up doing, just basically transferring the public_html folder from on to the other thru ftp and the running a backup of the database. i wont know if its fully working until the dns changes all the way over though.
Most web hosts if you upload the cPanel backup file they'll be willing to restore the account for you. This way almost all the information is changed over and no worry about setting permissions again and things of that nature. So what most people do in order to get the backup file to their new host is use the cPanel backup tool and set it to ftp to another server.
basically what i did was this create a full backup and mysql database backup thru cpanel on old site download all the public_html folder create a new database and user using the same name and password as the old site on the new cpanel. ftp in the public_html folder, run the backups thru cpanel and the sites work fine. i dont know if ill run into any problems having done it this way but it all seems to be working fine.
go to each acount backup ==> Download or generate a full backup ==> Backup Destination: Remote ftp server Remote Server (FTP/SCP only): new ip server ( or reseller ) Remote User (FTP/SCP only): make a user in the new server for transfer ( example : transfer ) Remote Password (FTP/SCP only): enter password connect to ssh and mv back up to home directory and after that Restore it if you have ssh i can do it for you contact me : yahoo id : mymizban_help also i have a server if you want i can help you
thanks for the help, i have been successful in moving 2 so far the way i been doing it even though its an extra step. i did rent a server but thanks for the offer.