How to move From Dreamhost to NetFirms

I want to move a board from Dreamhost to NetFirms

The move needs to take all the posts and the members with it. Also i dont want any hacks to be moved. I would prefer to reinstall the hacks. The load on my server remains :

Server Load Averages 0.96 1.24 1.35 | 624 Users Online (92 members and 532 guests)

Could someone please help with a few answers like:

Is it possible?

Is it hard to do?

Whats the chances of screwing it up?

How to move it?

What if i want to keep my domain name as it is?

How to move the database?

Am i doing the right thing? [I am gettin lots of error msgs on Dreamhost - Mainly, 500 Server error/Site down]

And anything else that you may think that would be useful.

Many thanks in advance. :up: :up:

[Ntfu2]

Is it possible? Yes, make a couple backups of your database and download them all

Is it hard to do? No

Whats the chances of screwing it up? Great if you've never done it before/aren't familiar with the process. Slim if you've got a semi-firm grasp on basic administration operations

How to move it? Backup DB from dreamhost multiple times to prevent getting a corrupt one. If you have attachments stored in file system you'll need to back those up as well and download. Then simply reupload vBulletin files onto new host, Upload new database, and have them restore it. Repload attachments if neccassary

What if i want to keep my domain name as it is? You'll need to simply change the name server information where ever you registered it.

How to move the database? if small, use PhpMyAdmin and just do a couple basic web dumps of it.

Am i doing the right thing? [I am gettin lots of error msgs on Dreamhost - Mainly, 500 Server error/Site down] Probably, if you can't fix the errors and dreamhost isn't much help to you.

[SCRIPT3R]

stay away from netfirms, do research.

[bolly.beats]

Originally Posted by GearTripper

stay away from netfirms, do research.

Hmmmm... Thanks 4 ur advice...

Can someone tell me, which host is good for my forum, coz i am faicing few problems on the server, like i m getting warnings to remove all addons. Let me show you the mail from my server.

Hello,

I'm writing you about your database "db_forums". It is causing severe
server loads with the following query:

# User@Host: jaimesh546468897@*(&)()_(&*&%$%$@^&
# Query_time: 0 Lock_time: 0 Rows_sent: 14181 Rows_examined: 56658
SELECT thanks.*, post.userid as postuserid, user.username
FROM thanks as thanks
LEFT JOIN post as post ON (post.postid = thanks.postid)
LEFT JOIN user as user ON (user.userid = thanks.userid)
ORDER BY thanks.dateline DESC;

being ran many times a second, sometimes 20 or more of them running at
once. We can't allow one customer to interrupt service for all other
customers on a server, so I've had to disable the table for now. Please
disable whatever is running this query, or clear out lots of old data to
keep it from having to examine so many rows. If you have further
problems or questions on this issue, you can email me at
justin5@dreamhost.com.

Thanks!
Justin

Though we have resolved the issue, but still we dont want such troubles on other server. Our server load has been mentioned in the first post of this thread. So according to that. Can anyone please suggest me a better host. Also we dont wanna spend more $$$.

[bashy]

Whats the size of your forum, user count, posts, average online at any one time?

forget that, just took a look

Members: 13,820+
Total Threads: 11,232
Posts: 80,773
Online Users: 370

I would suggest a dedicated server....

[bolly.beats]

I agree with you now. I badly need a dedicated server now. Which according to you is the best one and reasonable too?

[SCRIPT3R]

i've been using asmallorange for a few of my forums for almost a year now. i've been very happy with them.

[bolly.beats]

Can some one check this server for me. I mean is it worth buying it.

http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/dv/pricing.htm

The 1st one. 20GB space and 1TB bandwidth. Is my site gonna rely this server for 1 year?

[Ntfu2]

You should have learned your lesson about those insane amounts of storage and bandwidth from dreamhost...

[bolly.beats]

Ya I have Ntfu.... After removing my hide hack mod, now they have force me to uninstall vbchat too.

I m tired of them now.... I do believe that it is a problem for them also, but now tired of shared servers, well no one has told me about the server that i have mentioned above.

Also i am looking forward to this server too:
Get Details of 1 & 1 VPS

Can any one suggest which one is better.