Company (or person) willing to help me transfer servers?

[mvolking]

I need to move my forum from my hosting company, to another one. I am willing to pay someone to do this for me, as I honestly don't have the time to play with it.

The forum is a small forum, and the entire forum backup is only 30megs. There are some plug-in's, etc.

The forum needed to be moved is; www.theridersforum.com

If there is a company out there that does this, or someone with the know how, let me know.

Thanks!

[lighti]

I'm not sure of any companies that do that kind of stuff, but if you wanted to try it yourself us here on the board could surely help you. Based on the size of the site and what I saw it should not take you very long at all to move over.

First thing I would do is ask the new webhost if they are able to do a "Migration" if say the previous host and this host used the same control panel software they could just automatically transfer the data over, or I know cPanel, will transfer accounts from plesk,helm and some others. Check on that you would just need to give the new host your login info they would enter a command and site moved! Thats if they are nice enough to do that for you, or if they are setup to do that. But its always worth a try :)

[Hornstar]

As above, ask your host if they will do the migration for free, if not, I own hosting company, not sure if i'm allowed to advertise it here or not, so I wont, however we offer free migration to customers, it does not take long, and your forums would be up in no time at all.

[eUKhost.com]

You can ask the new host if they can do the transfer for you. I am sure they will definitely do because your data is not that big. I dont think there would be any problems.

[mvolking]

Thanks, I will ask if the new host does migration. If not, do you think I could find someone to do it for me (I'll of course compensate them)

[Alfa1]

IMHO if a webhost is not willing to do the migration for you, then that says a lot about their customer service. You rely on it when you run into problems with your site or server. So if your webhost is not willing to do the migration, then it will probably be best to find another.
Just my 2 cents.

[mvolking]

I agree 1000%. However, basically, I've sold the forum and the new owner is picking his own hosting service, which is why I need to move it.

I've *strongly* encouraged him to choose a hosting service that will transfer the files over, so we'll see what happens. But, worse-case is I have to move them, and that's why I was soliciting someones service.