Website Transfer to new server .... Need Advice

Hi

I need to transfer a website to another server and need some advice please.

The website is +/- 8GB , currently using cpanel but the server
i need to transfer this to is using plesk.

What is the best way of transferring ?

 

I just transferred all my 3 websites (around 6 gigs) to a new server. The best way is manually to do everything. I archived all files and dbs, then pushed them to a new server. Takes a lot of time though...

 

Hi

What do you mean by push to a server. ?

People told me i should make a complete backup of my website, download the whole 8 gig to my computer and then upload it to the new server.

That will lake forever to do and i only have a 3 gig cap on my internet connection

Is there a way to transfer the online backed-up files to the new server without the need to download it ?


PS: sorry for posting this in the wrong forum

 

interesting concept

what you need is a ftp cleint that open your new server in one window ......and your old server in the other ...mmm... where your despktop normallly shows ........

mmm.... interesting concept

I have never seen such a thing but i would want it ... its bound to be out there ..when you find it let us all know please

PAUL

 

any help would be appriciated as we are trying to figure out the most effective way to transfer the site, it would be easy if it were just a few html files, but it is tons and tons of movies and db's .

Is there a website that lays out techniques to transering db's?

Thanks for any help.

-Chris

 

Thats the exact problem I was facing as I'm paying for the internet a lot, and dont have unlimited traffic (as it is in Moscow, St. Petersburg.).

Here is what I did, I ordered a new server first, then archived all files on the old one and placed them on a public domain. The next step is you are logging in to the new server, then download that archived file from

http://www.yoursite.com/files.rar for example. It doesnt take long, since the server's speed is huge, mine was downloading at 1Mb/sec.

After downloading it you just set the permissions on it, and thats it.

That was on windows box via remote control. You might have a different server or not even a dedi box, I dont know.

 

Why not ftp the files directly from your old server to your new server ?

Brew

 

how do we transfer this, I would really like to get the site transfered ASAP!

 

I can do it for you if you are on windows server, not for free of course.

 

it's not windows, sorry