Dec 19 2008
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Server Migration
This is again a post related to the recent offer to BizPartner customers to migrate web and email hosting to the new Linux server running cPanel free of charge.
Some customers are very technical inclined, even more knowledgeable than me on server matters 
No surprise if they want to do the migration themselves. So if you are interested in DIY migration, here is a summary checklist for you.
To start with, please make sure your web site can run on Linux server. Web sites using ASP or .NET technologies will not run and should stay with your current Windows server.
Please also have your domain name control panel login details with you. You need the username and password to login to change domain name server (DNS). The details were sent to you when you first registered the domain. Please contact me if you need help retrieving the details.
After you have decided to migrate, please let me know and I’ll create a hosting plan for you on the new server. I will send you the hosting details with access to your cPanel.
Please carry out these three things before migration:
- Your web site – Please backup your web site from the current server and upload to the new server, using the temporary FTP details given to you.
- Your database – If you have any MySQL database on the current server, please backup and upload it to the new server using PhpMyAdmin in cPanel.
- Your email accounts – Please retrieve your current list of email addresses from the current server, and recreate them on the new server using cPanel.
However, your emails on the current server, if any, cannot be migrated over. Your users need to download the emails to their computers. But you can keep on sending and receiving emails during the migration. Read here for more information.
Finally, at the migration date and time of your choice, just log on to the domain name control panel and change DNS setting according to the hosting details sent to you.
You can do it!
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Dear Ricky,
Happy new year to you and the best wishes in 2009.
Kindly do the migration for my domain. I dont think I can do it myself.
Thank you.
Dr. Oleks