This site, along with several other sites that I manage, will be moving to a Panamanian web hosting company in the next few days. I find it a time-consuming process zipping up a business’s website and emails, along with sundry backup files/documents, for copying to the new web host. It took overnight to compress a 20Gb file through WHM…and there was no end to the browser clocking as the server attempted to fetch the zipped backup. I am attempting to download the tarred file at home through FIOS to see if I have better luck. I’ve also decided to create a backup through cPanel, to see if this process proves more expeditiously than the WHM method. I found a nice how-to on proceeding with a cPanel backup and restore of accounts on the net. And I also found another how-to write up on migrating reseller/multiple accounts.

Day 2 is fraught with headaches: long transfer times, long download times, and unpacking errors at WHM. I am going to have to try unpacking the tarred files manually to force it to run correctly (i.e. /scripts/restorepkg). I’m not sure if this is an issue with tarred files, poor internet speeds, or a quirky server. We shall have to see…