Comments on: Successful Wordpress Server to Server Migration

By: Xarj

Xarj — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:50:34 +0000

Big Ouch! Table by Table! That sounds nuts!
I find a wordpress database is easily movable under 20MB. More than 20MB means you have a HUGE blog! 20MB of text is a lot of information!

I had a blog using feedwordpress and my db was 80MB ! Only way to get to that much is by scraping others content! I’ve been posting articles for more than 2 years on xarj.net and my db is less than 10MB!

By: Troy

Troy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:06:54 +0000

The DB dump was more than double the limit imposed by PhPAdmin import feature.

I figured out a simple way – importing table by table.

Before the migration, I had no clue the structure of WP_Database. Now it seems like a piece of cake.

By: Xarj

Xarj — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:35:48 +0000

Excellent job!

Once you’ve done it properly once, you feel a lot more confident about your technical competence!

What “roadblocks” did you hit during your wordpress migration?
What’s your blog’s url?

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:48:52 +0000

I did it! Hopefully I will write a comprehensive report on my migration experience. It was almost migraine introducing as I hit couple of roadblocks on the way.

By: Xarj

Xarj — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:35:38 +0000

The DNS servers across the world have to propagate the DNS changes so it takes anywhere from 2 hours to 24 hours. Voila! Good luck with your Migration! I got myself a dedicated server with dedibox france and I’m REAL happy about it!

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:30:12 +0000

Hmmm…will try it out. When you say wait a few hours [step number 7], how much roughly? 24, 48, 36?

Thanks

By: Xarj

Xarj — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:26:17 +0000

Hey Troy!

It’s been a while since I modified DNS address but if I remember correctly, you simply goto your domain config settings and use external DNS addresses (not 1and1 DNS) and set the primary and secondary DNS of your new ISP.

Does that make sense?

By: Troy

Troy — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:45:52 +0000

(Forgot to check the ‘notify by email for followup comments….so this one)

By: Troy

Troy — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:44:47 +0000

My case is exactly like yours.

I am having the same problems with my website which is being hosted by 1and1 and I keep getting these internal 500 server messages.

So now I have finally decided to move on and migrate my site. I am planning to migrate my site to MediaTemple and use their grid server hosting since I am hearing rave reviews about them on different blogs.

What I would like to know is, how do you carry out the 6th step – Modify the DNS to point to your new web server?

Could you elaborate on this with respect to 1and1.

Thanks.

By: Fedir

Fedir — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:26:06 +0000

Just one thing. Better to test the site before to point DNS.
You should to point the “hosts” on Your client to do it.