The Moving Of Reseller Accounts

[retired_member6]

Is there an easy way of moving sites between reseller accounts or is it as hard a task as it looks? I fancy going unlimited and taking the risk. I'm with hostroute at the moment but wouldn't mind saving £500 a year.

Cheers
Lee

 

[mibut]

Contact David at meirhosting.net.
Cheap hosting and he can normally sort out the moving for you.

 

[mishmash]

If it's a whm/cpanel set up and the change is on the same machine it's trivial. The root whm user can just change a flag.

If its between machines you'll need someone with root access to WHM and SSH on both machines - then it's a case of using the built in scripts to do a full backup put it on the new machine and restore it.

You'll need to check things like cron jobs, stats and hidden files (eg. .htaccess) have been properly transferred.

 

[retired_member6]

Thanks I'll look into both as I know I'm paying too much.

There's a tool some sites use to place automatically a site within cpanel, I thought there might be one that when provided password and username could just take the site out also, its seems plausible to me.

 

[mishmash]

The cpanel "full backup" option will save the files, database, stats and email. In my experience it hasn't been perfect on cron jobs and keeping file permissions set. A cpanel full backup needs to be restored by the root whm user.