Comments on: Settings To Be Altered In Wp-Config.php File While Transferring Your Host

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:54:11 +0000

@ Paritosh. Will surely consider.
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By: Paritosh

Paritosh — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:28:40 +0000

@ Ashish It was just an offer. Consider it whenever you get time !

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:55:06 +0000

Will surely consider doing this. But if you check the number of updates to my (so called) blog, you will know how frequently I manage to write
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By: Paritosh

Paritosh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:52:26 +0000

@ Ashish Don’t worry about the link. It will be there. I respect other’s work. BTW, you can also guest post (if you want to). Here is the link : Write For Us

By: Ashish

Ashish — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:21:18 +0000

I have no prob. Go ahead and make a separate post. Would it be too much to ask for a link back/credit to Expertrio in the article?

No love lost. The links were to article on the same topic i.e. how to transfer your site from one server to another in different scenarios.

Might as well have an article with those links.

Cheers!

Ashish.
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By: Paritosh

Paritosh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:50:00 +0000

@ Ashish Mehta You explained the entire procedure in the comments section !!! Do you mind if i post this comment as a separate article ? Also your comment containing links to various posts has been deleted as we don’t allow links in our comments section.

By: Ashish Mehta

Ashish Mehta — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:43:46 +0000

If both – old and new – host have cPanel, transfer is quite simple. Provide backup (cPanel > Backup > Full Site) to new host and they can simply restore. No need to change anything.

If both hosts have different control panels, then all things – files and DB have to be transferred manually – as was done with this site some time back

But cPanel or no cPanel. The main problem in transferring sites with DB is DNS propagation. You never know which visitor will go to new server and which to old. … and “upto 48 to 72 hours” is quite a long time in my opinion. That way you may lose some UGC (User Generated Content). There is one method of transferring a site with DB to minimise this loss of UGC and reduce this time of 48 hours to a few hours (depending on the size of DB).

1. First transfer all static content i.e. files, images, etc.
2. Then stop updating blog and disable comments.
3. Transfer DB to new host.
4. Change DB details (name, user, password, location) in new host if required.
5. Put the same details (except location) in OLD host.
6. In OLD host put location of DB as IP of new host (in place of “localhost”). Confirm with your new host about what IP to use. It can be different than IP of your main site.
7. Re-enable comments, etc.
8. Change DNS of your domain name.

Now when a visitor goes to old host or new host the DB at new host will get updated. So downtime = time taken to transfer the DB and not 48 to 72 hours

People who land up at old host may find the site little slow because the database is hosted remotely. But that’s a small price to pay.

Cheers!

Ashish.