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Wordpress Move
I am looking to move a wordpress site from a shared Server to a vps, The Shared Server currently uses cPanel, The Server I want to get is from ovh and I will have it preinstalled with Wordpress. I have not bought the vps yet as I am not sure if that is the exact one I want. I am moving to a vps as we expect more traffic and the current reseller account we utilize for this site is having issues with not allowing emails to be sent or going to spam.
The Email issue may be something to do with an error in wordpress as we do not even see the emails in the spam or inbox of the email account we had it sent to.
However My question is how do I move the Content from my Current site to the vps.
As I am hoping that will fix the issue.
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You run a hosting company and you don't know how to migrate Wordpress?
If it's a production site, don't risk and hire some professional for this. If you will not be getting cpanel with your vps, just migrating the site won't be enough. You will need to setup a mail server for the emails as well.
its simple
take a backup of
mysql for the wp- database
backup of the wp install directory
in the new server
do the following
restore the backup of the install directory
restore the mysql backup
fix any permalinks issue and .htaccess
thats all and thats quick
also do the needfull for the dns and ns and A record update
done...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/
The Duplicator gives WordPress administrators the ability to migrate, copy or clone a site from one location to another. The plugin also serves as a simple backup utility.https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
I understand what your saying I actually no longer run a company. I did minimal hosting work in the past. But no longer have the time to do it. I usually have someone to help with this type of stuff but the site I am moving Is more of a personal Site and I did not want to have someone seeing my admin setting and info within wordpress.
The site is still being developed, but it is for a local campaign and I know I need the contact form and all emails working I have tried different plugins and the test emails work but the contact form on the site does not go through.
https://www.akeebabackup.com/products/akeeba-backup-wordpress.html
Very easy to backup using Akeeba and then upload the backup to the new server using Akeeba Kickstart. I've done this dozens of times for Joomla and WordPress using Akeeba.
Follow directions, take your time. Don't destroy/cancel old sever until your 100% for sure its working on the new VPS. Feel free to PM me if you need help.
I will move it for $20 mate.
@HostHoney
Oh My GOD
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Try VaultPress or BlogVault.
You could always use a free Wordpress plugin like Duplicator that will do all the steps for you (and it works very well).
Otherwise
-edit- fuck you cloudflare, won't even let me put in the commands.
^ this + you will need to do some tweaking of mysql and web server configs on your vps... but I would get someone that did that before... the task is easy if you did it before.
I'll share this little tip with you: you know that you can try this migration at home on a virtual machine or on any spare piece of hardware that can handle Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD... etc.
I upvote anybody that says that.
In case you still haven't figured it out, send me a PM. I'll help you move the site because I am bored at the moment, and migrating a website sounds like a fun way to spend 10 minutes of my time.
Duplicator's good at this. It builds an arhive tarball and a php installer script. Upload them to the new hosting and the installer connects to the db, and will refactor the db for domain name changes and references to absolute paths, even down to changing the length values in json data.
done this many times, usually just rsync the files over and dump and re-up the database and copy (in my case) apache config files over. Also php.ini, etc and my.cnf (assuming new server is close to same specs).
The hardest part, at least in my experience, is making sure the new server as all the right php modules installed. The Wordpress docs when I last looked weren't very thorough in this regard.
I spent more time typing "yum install xxx" than I did anything else.
I just released WP Backup Essentials which has the ability to backup the website files separate from the database. Bundled with WP Backup Essentials is a migrate script which downloads the backup archive files and database from the old server and restores it on the new server.
Visit http://www.dovetechnologies.net/wpbackupessentials.html for details. We have a 50% special running right now that supports up to 10 wordpress websites for just $25 dollars per year.
and how about your signature?
@Ole_Juul You would think that CC would be boasting the fact that they have 10 Gbit DDoS protection. Instead, they use CF and install SSL on the front end, not the back.
Even OVH does a better job, can withstand larger attacks, and not just 1mb/second. All this comes at around half price.
if email is your only concern.. just enable smtp on your wp(easy via plugin).. get a paid plan from mxroute or a free plan from zoho.. and you are all set
1. Make full cPanel backup, install cPanel on OVH then migrate it. 2. Make a backup of home directory/sql n migrate to OVH. Right?
that's enough!!!