lottos Posted May 11, 2004 Posted May 11, 2004 Hi my current web host plan is almost up so I'm looking at other possible hosts. My current site is extremely basic - it offers a front page for web based email provided by a 3rd party, everyone.net. Similiar to bigmailbox. So - have you guys set this up for any of your clients and did you do it successfully - ie not only change the mx and cname records but also ensure any mail from within the domain account (on your server) is also sent to the everyone.net servers? Secondly, I have another site which I want to ftp the DB from to my new host - and while I know this is no problem, the (mysql) DB size is approx 25MB uncompressed - I'd like to send it compressed but if I use anything apart from cpanel compression it errors with unreadable errors. I know one of your techs raised the possibility of doing a script for cpanel type ftp DB backups (which I replied to) but no more has been heard on that.... Quote
MikeJ Posted May 11, 2004 Posted May 11, 2004 Secondly, I have another site which I want to ftp the DB from to my new host - and while I know this is no problem, the (mysql) DB size is approx 25MB uncompressed - I'd like to send it compressed but if I use anything apart from cpanel compression it errors with unreadable errors.I know one of your techs raised the possibility of doing a script for cpanel type ftp DB backups (which I replied to) but no more has been heard on that.... An easy way to transfer that db would be just to download the db to your PC through cpanel, then upload it to the new host. That'll give you a gzipped (compression that cPanel uses) database backup. A script to automate db backups on cPanel is still on my plate. I still have to write the part that does the actual FTP (shouldn't take too long). Just keeps getting bumped by other priorities. Quote
lottos Posted May 11, 2004 Author Posted May 11, 2004 sorry for posting twice - I was hoping for a quick answer and now that I can only reply to the one in the backend and not pre-sales I'm afraid I'll be waiting even longer! I'm still waiting on an answer for the everyone.net question.... thanks for the response on the automated ftp DB question. Quote
TCH-Rick Posted May 11, 2004 Posted May 11, 2004 We can set up the account to use the external mail servers and deliver all mail to them. You would need to open a Help Desk ticket and be very specific about what you want done and include the IP address and host name for the external server. We would need to make adjustments to some server files so that all mail sent from our servers and scripts on your site would use the external mail server as well. Quote
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