Recently, I faced a situation whiling moving fairly large image sharing website from shared hosting to a dedicated as it was taking too much resources. there were few challenges in this site transfer:
- Number of images were over 90,000 and size of about 95GB which rules of conventional method of first downloading everything from old server on your own machine and then uploading to new server is not feasible.
- Shared hosting provider only gave FTP access. so it rules out rsync,scp,bittorrent or anything similar based transfers. host even refused to achieve the 90,000 files.
In short, you will have to move all files and database via FTP. Here is how: Continue reading »
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