Create a ticket with the new hosting company and ask them to restore your cpanel backup that has been uploaded to the home directory.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nThis method is faster than the prior because it saves them time from having to login your old cpanel, create backups, and copy over to the\u00a0new server.
\nIf it is a big site, I recommend choosing to save the backup directly to the new server via remote FTP or SCP.
\n(SCP is an advanced method which requires SSH to be enabled on both hosting accounts. This is the fastest way to copy files.)<\/p>\n
(Tip: “Cherry picking” Techs will grab this type of ticket faster to meet their quotas.)<\/p>\n
For people that are not working with a web company, the above 2 methods would be the quickest and most pain-free ways to migrate your website from one hosting provider to another.
\nFor websites that do not utilize a database or cpanel email, I personally use SSH, tar gzip the public_html folder, use SCP to copy the archive to the new server, and then tar decompress the archive on the new server in a SSH session. For anything else, performing a full cpanel backup and allowing the hosting company to restore it is easiest.<\/p>\n
For WordPress migration, there are far more tools that can automate the process which I’ll write about soon.<\/p>\n
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