| Posted by Ninav, 01-26-2006, 11:33 AM | | Hi Ya'll
I need a consultant to help me migrate all of my accounts over to my new server. I have some special set ups and need someone that can be available during the transfer in case anything goes wrong.
Can anyone make a referral on this?
thx
-Nina
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| Posted by Oceanworld, 01-26-2006, 11:42 AM | | Server-to-server Cpanel transfer is pretty standard and most server admins can do that no problem. Perhaps you should state what's your 'special setup' so they know what they're in for
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| Posted by Ninav, 01-26-2006, 11:47 AM | | Yep.. I should know better.
# I have several sites with dedicated SSL certificates.
# RVAdmin for Cpanel needs to be installed and configured on new host.
# Shared SSL
Will be moving about 60 sites from Cpanel to Cpanel host. I want to minimize the time that mail is out of synch.
thx
Nina
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| Posted by Website Rob, 01-26-2006, 11:54 AM | | A good ServerAdmin shouldn't have any problems but it could take up to 6 hrs. to complete. Experience has shown that about 12 - 15 sites per hr. get transferred, depending upon size and transfer speed, but other work can be done while that is going on. Would be a good time to have some Server hardening done as well.
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| Posted by mripguru, 01-26-2006, 11:54 AM | | RVSkin you mean? Most competent server admins can do the job for you with no problems at all .
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| Posted by Scott.Mc, 01-26-2006, 01:27 PM | | Someone who is good at moving can do this with virtually no downtime.
Setting your ttls too 10 in /var/named you can use the replace command too do this, or even perl -pi -e
Give this a day or two before moving, and then just rsync everything including /var/lib/mysql, /var/cpanel
Once the intial one is done, do it again, even do it a few times so it only takes a few seconds too complete.
Change your dns, and then rsync once more and your done.
Downtime = 0, if you have really active database sites, just add mod_rewrite in apache before the last dns change, too redirect too an offline page. Rsync the data and change the dns, then you are finished, again at most 10seconds downtime.
I have executed this method plenty of times without any issues.
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| Posted by and1c, 01-26-2006, 03:50 PM | | I would go with server wizards...
they run all my servers and have doene some very complex clustering and moving tasks for me on several occasions when I did not want to try it myself.....
highly recommended
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| Posted by Ninav, 01-26-2006, 04:01 PM | | Would that be serverwizards.com ?
Clustering sounds interesting. Did you setup one server to control another? I'd really prefer to do that so I could move over the more complex sites one at a time.
Thanks!
Nina
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| Posted by Ninav, 01-26-2006, 04:15 PM | | Has anyone tried
hostworks.ca ?
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| Posted by DataDork, 01-26-2006, 05:21 PM | | If you are looking for a topnotch cPanel expert, I would recommend Jonathan from ConfigServer Services. They handle all of my cPanel servers.
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| Posted by ayksolutions, 01-26-2006, 05:55 PM | | Yep, Jonathan's a moderator on Cpanel forums. You can also give www.got-management.com a shot. They will definitely help you without a glitch and harden your server for you should you need it.
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| Posted by Ninav, 01-26-2006, 06:04 PM | | Thanks a bunch. I will check both of those out. It's such a worry to have to migrate all these sites. I have never done it before and I really just want to have it done right.
thx
Nina
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| Posted by RayWomack, 01-26-2006, 08:51 PM | | http://totalserversolutions.com has some of the best cPanel experts around.
One the TSS guy's has http://eth0.us which has very good articles.
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