It's been a hell of a weekend for me folks, what started out something as simple as a host transfer turn out to be hell and more stress then I needed.
On firday night, I tried to get all the site info on to godaddy but filezilla wouldn't connect and when I used their upload I couldn't unzip any of the files. Thus I started to set up things on a back up host I had in mind and due to a mistake I had to wait till Saturday.
Saturday, I was busy all morning and afternoon and couldn't get to the hosting till early evening. When I did I tried to send them a entire back up of the site since they used the same Cpanel software. But the site and all files is 1.4GB in size nearly impossible to send. So I found a third party email site and started to send the full back up which would take about 5 hours to upload and just let that do all night. Next morning I woke up to see it stop a few KB of sending, thus making me go FUUUUUUUUUUUU!
Sunday, I just uploaded what needed to be upload but when I got to the mysql db, the forum db was to large. So I tried bigdump to break it down and I couldn't even get it started. So I went back to godaddy and this time I was able to unzip the stuff but the db upload kept timing out. Running out of time I went back to the domain DNS and set things back to the host we started out with.
so in short, it may be impossible to move this site. I'll look into some other options later this week after a nice break from things.
I really do apologize for this downtime, I made a lot of mistakes during this transfer that shouldn't have happened and could have made things quicker. I'll glad award anyone 1 million GF shards for this downtime.
so unless you guys got some ideas, were here to stay on this host for awhile.
On firday night, I tried to get all the site info on to godaddy but filezilla wouldn't connect and when I used their upload I couldn't unzip any of the files. Thus I started to set up things on a back up host I had in mind and due to a mistake I had to wait till Saturday.
Saturday, I was busy all morning and afternoon and couldn't get to the hosting till early evening. When I did I tried to send them a entire back up of the site since they used the same Cpanel software. But the site and all files is 1.4GB in size nearly impossible to send. So I found a third party email site and started to send the full back up which would take about 5 hours to upload and just let that do all night. Next morning I woke up to see it stop a few KB of sending, thus making me go FUUUUUUUUUUUU!
Sunday, I just uploaded what needed to be upload but when I got to the mysql db, the forum db was to large. So I tried bigdump to break it down and I couldn't even get it started. So I went back to godaddy and this time I was able to unzip the stuff but the db upload kept timing out. Running out of time I went back to the domain DNS and set things back to the host we started out with.
so in short, it may be impossible to move this site. I'll look into some other options later this week after a nice break from things.
I really do apologize for this downtime, I made a lot of mistakes during this transfer that shouldn't have happened and could have made things quicker. I'll glad award anyone 1 million GF shards for this downtime.
so unless you guys got some ideas, were here to stay on this host for awhile.
