Suggestions For Migration?

[snipe]

Hi all,

 

I am shopping around for a new dedicated hosting solution, to move from ev1. I have a Cobalt RAQ there, and although I don't have any problems with ev1 per se, they are sold out of non-RAQ solutions - and I have just about run out of patience with this stupid RAQ. I just want a "normal" server again.

 

So I have been shopping around, and TCH seems to be the best deal in town - and judging by the posts in here, it seems that everyone is pretty happy with your service, so I'm pretty well sold.

 

My concern here is that I have about 80 sites that I have to transfer over once I have the TCH account, most of which use dynamic scripting, databases, etc.

 

Anyone have any brilliant ideas on how to migrate this as painlessly as possible? What I figured I might do is set up subdomain DNS on the current machine, and direct it to the new TCH machine, so that I can upload and test without interrupting the normal sites until I'm ready to make them live. Does that sound like it makes sense? Any other suggestions? I have moved sites a hundred times before, but never on *this* level all by myself.

[cloudrm]

I can't tell you how to do it, but put in a "help ticket" and the TCH staff will be all over it. They're the best.

 

https://ssl.totalchoicehosting.com/supportdesk/

 

Migrating my site took a few days, but went flawlessly. They just suggested leaving my site on the old server until the dns propagation went through. In the meantime, I did some housecleaning and uploaded my site to the new server. If your present server has Cpanel software I think they can do it server-to-server.

 

You can test your site on your new server for as long as you want as long as the dns points to your old server (don't quote me on that one).

[Head Guru]

Snipe,

 

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[MikeJ]

For testing/migration purposes... I have my own modified "hosts" file on my local machine that I change as necessary so I can have full access to my new sites before I migrate any DNS. That would give you reasonable ability to test before you make any of the migrated sites "live".

 

But it also sounds like TCH is on top of it so I'm sure they have plenty of suggestions/help as well.