Is it possible to move your hosting website, and its clients, without any downtime?
Please consider the following scenarios:
1. Moving between Reseller Plan, VPS, or Dedicated Server
(same and/or different provider)
2. Moving to a new provider
(same package)
Also,
If you have been able to move between packages/servers flawlessly with the same provider.
I see several ISP advertising that they can help clients without any downtime? I now have a couple of large clients I am supposed to move to my servers. They are moving from cpanel servers to my cpanel servers, so the moving part is easy enough, but how should I proceed to have no or very little downtime?
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So after that I thought ok i'll login directly to the vps hypervm and do a reboot to see if I can do that before submitting a ticket. I login and it says that I can't because the slave is upgrading. Ugh... so now my site has been down for almost 9 hours and so I send in a ticket and they said the centos bug is fixed and WHM is working again, but it isn't I can't connect at all, this + the ddos steadcom received and loads ticket number 15... in the last few months has put me over the edge.
So I am looking for a new home for my two ipb boards and one phpbb board.
I currently pay around $95 USD a month for my plan.
Must haves are WHM/Cpanel, and the ability to login and reboot the vps,
managed would be nice as well.
Current Disk Space is 60gb ( Don't really need that much but it doesn't hurt )
Bandwidth was 1500gb, but I used a coupon on WHT forum and now have 3000
I don't use it all but it's nice...
Only need 1 ip address.
SSH Access yes please.
Also my current ram is 1024, burstable 2gigs. I would like to keep something comparable.
I have 35 clients hosting on my dedicated server.
I am going to be ending my service as a host provider, and I need to transfer all of my clients to a new host.
Many of my clients sites were written 3-4 years ago in php while global vars was still off, and so many of the sites might not function correctly if I just pop them to a new host.
My first solution would be to bypass the php .ini file with a public_html/ based ini that would override any newer server settings.
Does anyone know of a good host that could take my clients? And also support the php version locally to the shared account?
I need a host that is reliable, and honest.
Am I going about this the right way?
I am open to any suggestions or advice on this.
I should probably add, all of my clients pay on an annual basis from $89-$140. None of my clients run video sites or any heavy media stuff.
How can i move my website from one server to another?
There are 15gb of files so its not an easy move.
I tried moving it with WHM backup and restore thing but that just messed everything up.
Is there a more simple and efficient way?
I have a weird problem which never occured till now, and I moved websites about 3 times and it never did so bad.
I moved the websites on a new server on sunday, the new server has the primary nameservers ns3.xtremewd.com and ns4.xtremewd.com . The old one has ns1 and ns2 .
all my websites uses the nameservers ns1.sibiul.net and ns2.sibiul.net on monday morning I changed IP (from godaddy control panel) for ns1 and ns2 to point to the new server
Bouth servers are online and ware online all the time but very weird thing happents. on dnsreport I saw a change on my IP they changed it to new ones .. than yesterday night I saw again the old ones , and I refreshed the page multiple times. On backup.dnsreport.com it shows new IP's.
on dnsstuff I could not ping my websites
Sorry, I could not determine the IP for sibiul.ro (error 11004).
on backup.dnsstuff it worked with new IP's.
On my ISP this one is working but others dont and all have the same nameservers. I don;t understand why some websites work and others dont. For exemple on my primary ISP (i have 2 conections) hidrosib.ro is not working .. on other ISP it is.
I don;t understand why dnsstuf canot ping my sites and backup can.
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I currently own a reasonably sized VPS paying around 40/$80 a month for it. I am extremely happy with the service but I have recently move from freelance to being hired by a company.
I wish to scale down my costs so looking at other options.
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On the server that is for resellers I see there is a file in /usr/local/psa/var/log containing a file mail_traffic_pendings.dat with sender and recipient domain traffic. I presume this has to be processed to go into the database, but obviously it is not. How to debug this issue so that email stats get updated for clients.
I'm currently with Hawkhost but I want to move to a UK hosting service as I'm finding Hawkhost to be rather sluggish.
I currently have 15 websites (not that data intensive) but I want to find a UK host that offers shared hosting and then offers the possibility of moving all the data onto a dedicated machine once some of the sites take off.
A) do any companies actually offer such a service of relocating?
B) are there any anyone could recommend? I'm thinking of eventually getting a dedicated server for up to 75 pounds a month.
I dont believe any of these shared hosting providers are different from another except maybe pricing and 24/7 telephone/email support.
So putting to rest which one is the "best", when do u decide that it is time for u to move on to a vps or dedicated server. what is the daily bandwidth that should make you realize that u need to move on to a better server before they cut u down cos u r taking up "too many resources"
I currently have a small hosting plan (4 gb traffic , 400 Mb space) that I use for a few email accounts from my company.However , the disk space is not enough for what we need so I have to move the emails to another hosting plan. I'm looking for something with 5-10 gb space , 10-20 gb traffic/month , unlimited email accounts. I'm not looking for it to be cheap , just dont like the overselling idea for my hosting needs so I can pay if it's good. Also I was wondering what kind of program do I need in order to create a webmail interface so that the employees could check their email without having to use the webmail clients from cPanel.
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I have read (here and elsewhere) that for most people's requirements, a shared web hosting would do. However, for someone a with a little more web baggage (individuals, not businesses), it is generally advised that they look at semi-dedicated hosting plans.
2) Based on the above quoted, objectively, what are the things that you should look at (like traffic per day etc) and what should be their values (for e.g. like 15000 uniques per day etc) while considering moving from sharing to semi-dedicated plans? I think some of them are the following, can you give me approximate values for these when I should consider the move?
a) Traffic
b) Number of active websites
c) Sites with heavy resource usage. (Can you give me some examples of this?)
d)...
What else am I missing in this list?
Plesk 12 - Domain with no hosting I'm getting error when changing hosting settings to Website Hosting
Error: Some fields are empty or contain an improper value. ('home' = '')
I have a problem with Parallels Plesk v12.0
Hosting type on website became "No web hosting."
When I try to change hosting type to "Forwarding" it changes ok.
If I change hosting type to "Website hosting", I get message "The hosting type for "website name" was successfully changed.", but hosting plan still stay "No web hosting"....
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Is there some tool I can use to know the hosting of another website?
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