whats the best way to transfer one server to other with least down time?

[lkbryant]

Hi, I'm trying to migrate everything from current server to a different server without having a lot of downtime.

Is this possible?

I have tried to create a reseller level back up from the Admin panel but i have over 300 accounts and it takes a really long time to finish creating the backup.

Is there a way I can just have two servers up and running, and then just transfer user from one server to other one by up so there would be very little down time for the users?

[gate2vn]

1. make sure to inform your customers do NOT update their website at that time
2. backup using FTP transfer to new server
3. restore accounts in new server
4. edit dns zone in the old server, point to the IP of new server
5. update DNS, or IP for your private DNS

[nobaloney]

Your response is a bit simplistic.

What we do (also a simplistic response) is recreate all the resellers on the new machine, and then make reseller level backups and restores.

If you leave the domains running on the old machine while recreating them on the new machine you may end up with MySQL entries on the old machine that don't get transferred.

Jeff

[Timmm]

In addition; you could open 3306 on the new machine for remote or the old ip and let the scripts on the old machine connect to the new machine.

Using backup / ftp transfer are mailboxes and accounts also transfered?

[nobaloney]

yes, if you set them for transfer.

Jeff