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Hosting Account Portability

by PPPPaul
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I'm just now learning that "portability" in the cellular telephone number realm is light years ahead of moving a site/sites from one hosting service to another.

Have any warriors dealt with this issue before (either on shared or vps) and created a "harness" of sorts to ease the occasional port?

Thanks,
Paul
#account #ease #hosting #portability #switch
  • Profile picture of the author allenjohn
    No, it's a pain and inevitably ends up with the loss of some links/SE love/traffic... regards Allen
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  • Profile picture of the author flyinghammers
    Wouldn't it be great if was as easy as porting a cell phone number. I remember when the cell phone portability act passed, all the mobile carriers were against it because of the costs involved.
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  • Profile picture of the author rondo
    Most web hosts will happily move your sites for you. Just ask.

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  • Profile picture of the author caesargus
    Hi Paul,

    Have you heard of WP twin? If you are running a Wordpress site, you can clone your website and move it to a new server in less than 40 seconds or so ...

    If you're not running Wordpress then yes it is quite a pain to move sites over isn't it?
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Little
    It's not hard to move a site PPPPaul, especially if you have cPanel which has a built-in transfer system. I suggest talking to your host about having them move the files, most will copy your files over and make sure it's working. We do it all the time for clients.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Apples and oranges...

    It is a big difference between assigning a phone# to a device and to move quasi-physical files from one location to another.
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  • Profile picture of the author PPPPaul
    Thanks all.

    FYI -- after hosting for 2 years with IX on a shared platform, they quoted me $1000 to migrate my 15 web sites over to a VPS system.

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Little
    That's obscene Paul. If you buy a VPS with us I'll move your sites for free. I don't see how they could possibly justify charging that much.
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  • Profile picture of the author lumpy burgertushie
    moving one or a thousand sites should involve no or very little down time and no or very little problems with lost SEO etc.

    you do 99% of the file transfers before you switch the DNS for your domain name(s) you do database backups and restores etc. then change the DNS and within a few hours it will all be working just like before.

    same domain name, same link structure so no SEO problems etc.

    anything that does change you do a simply 301 redirect and you are done.

    also, as Christian offered above, almost all hosts will transfer your site(s) for free when you sign up with them.

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