Transfer your site

[agnes2121]

Moving your site can be a big deal sometimes. Do you have a bad experience when you transfer your site from one server to another? If so, what is it and how do you handle it?

[vivi21987]

hi,

is it possible what you are saying. i don't think so its that easy of transforming the site to another server. have anyone done this before?
pease do enlighten me.

[Jennifer84]

I haven't try to transfer a site before but I wanted to transfer my site to another server. But I think it is hard to transfer in another server because of the files that the site has that's what I'm worrying about...

[abhimi1]

Is there any perfect solution for transferring large file like 300-400 mb server to server?

Please let me know... thanks

[shymaaz]

In small size sites It is possible to handle but transferring a site with heavy data is often difficult. I have not experienced it and no intensions in near future to transfer my site to another server.

[krishmk]

I have done transferring my website files from one server to another. I understand this may be a difficult task for a newbie but as you do it a couple of times you would find it easier.

However transferring sites which have database connectivity and add ons (modules) may be pain in the neck.

[bbspeedtester]

The thing I always have to watch out for is the size of Databases.
When transfering onto the new site, i usually find that Cpanel times out due to the size of the DB file.

A useful tip:
Break the DB up into sections when uploading to the server, easier to keep ttrack of and stops the timing out.

David

[FreshFroot]

If your using cpanel, then your new host can transfer it for you. Cpanel/WHM has a feature built in, where it can transfer the WHOLE account from one server to another. That is just as long as BOTH your old and new company are using cpanel.

[LDHosting]

I've seen someone transferring over to a different host that had a lot of problems. It was a website and a few domain names that were registered with Lycos. The website itself didn't cause any problems, but Lycos refused to let the domains be transferred over and as a result the website was hard to reach for several weeks.

I hope noone else will get this problem, because Lycos is stopping their hosting branch and I've seen questions pop up about what will happen to their customers everywhere.

[AsNeTu]

Hello,
I have done transferring my website files from one server to another and i understand this may be a difficult task for a new guy but as you do it a couple of times you would find it easier.
Enjoy.

[rugioz]

I tried transferring my site to another server and I failed, I ended up paying someone to do it for me, I think its very difficult....

[thewebhostingdir]

It is true that transferring a site from one server to another server is always cumbersome task. Here chance of data loss is there if you get failure.

Hence, to overcome this issue always take the full backup of your site [including web content and database] at your local system. It is a matter of practice to transfer site from one server to another so as you become familiar with it, it becomes easy.

[javaidanwar]

The biggest problem I've encountered is the time-to-live setting in DNS. DNS typically caches retrieved records, so there can be a delay between when you change the host record and when clients start to see the change.

My advice is to set the TTL low prior to the move, then after the move has been tested, you can set the TTL back.

[thefreemoneyhub]

i am in the migration period and do encounter a lot of problems one of this is creating cname and aname for my domain name but my main concern is to redirect my backlinks from my old blog http://freemoneyhub.blogspot.com to http://thefreemoneyhub.com

[sparkliecandy]

Redirecting backlinks is the hardest part of all! In part of that transferring matter you have problem with.