Moving from one host to another

[ahmed]

Can anyone give me any quick tips on moving from one host to another? I just got my reseller account with DatHorn because I disliked my old host. I've got about 4 sites on there not including my own. How do I transfer over my WHM and Cpanel settings? I have yet to change the IP addresses in goDaddy for my nameservers to point to Dathorn. What do I do first?

[avenuex]

I know CPANEL has a account transfer option, but I believe thats only for dedicated people... (at least god knows I haven't seen it)

For myself, I'm currently transfering accounts over to Dathorn also..

My methodology is like this

#1. Run FULL site backup of client account (for my own use)
#2. Run HOME site backup of client account
#3. Run MySQL backups of client accounts
(all using Cpanel's backup tool)

Then importing them in one at a time on the new server. Only thing I found that doesn't work and has to be manually researched, are MySQL user/password info and subdomain/redirects. Although it does back upo the redirects, for some reason I can't import it.

This takes care of files/email stuff.

Does anyone have a better method? I'd love to know

[Dan]

Does your previous host use CPanel?

[ahmed]

Yes, I do have Cpanel Access on my last host. Thanks for the tips guys. Silly me, I assumed a full backup would include a backup of the databases.

[avenuex]

update

I just found out (much MUCH to my displeasure) that my email accounts for some reason on restore did not create correctly. (i.e. i can't receive new emails to that address)

Does anyone else have any suggestions on how to move email accounts over? There has to be a way to do it successfully, its silly to think we'd have to re-create each email account.

[ahmed]

After backing up all my files and changing the ip addresses on my nameservers to those I got in the email from DatHorn I find out that I can't login. Email response from support says that my account was voided due to possible fraud.

[KyleC]

After backing up all my files and changing the ip addresses on my nameservers to those I got in the email from DatHorn I find out that I can't login. Email response from support says that my account was voided due to possible fraud.

dunno, but you wont get any answers on this forum...

you need to talk to andrew about it.

[ahmed]

Yes, someone by the name of Andrew originally responded to why I can't login. All he said was that it was voided due to possible fraud. I am unhappy with this explanation. Why not contact me? Why not send an email? I'm just sitting here waiting to login to WHM. Granted I should've tried to login to the customer area but still....I woulda just been sitting here waiting. Furthermore, he didnt say anything about what I should do next - I have to reply and ask whether I should re-register or what? Currently waiting for reply. Maybe I'm just an impatient person ??