I host a lot of sites for friends, personal projects, and sometimes clients.  Over the past few month I’ve been moving them over to a new webhosting service that’s cheaper, has a better back-end management and more bandwidth.  I took my time to see how the new host would hold up and it’s been great so far.

Back when I just coded HTML pages moving a web site was easy.  You just back up the files and upload them to the new host.  But now with everything being run with server-side PHP scripting and data held in mySQL databases it can be a real pain to move.  Not only did I have to back up the databases, but I also had to edit those backups where they had data for old directory structures.

In summary, moving a WordPress site to a new site can be quite a bit of work.

But it’s done.

I did lose a few things on my site that I wasn’t using any more.  I stopped using my Gallery ages ago and keeping track of the spam comments building up on it was a pain, so I’ve just let it go.  I still have the images from it, so I may find a new place for them some time. The forum I was running had been used only for organizing our weekly road hockey games, but Facebook is going to be a lot better for that (if we want to start doing it again — anyone?)

Everything other than that should be working fine.  If it’s not, let me know!