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Actual Processes Involved

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 7 Jul, 2008 - 18:20
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Firstly, it goes without saying that you need access to your old host in order to carry out any of the following procedures. If you haven't got access to your old host, then in a nutshell, you're stuffed.

The following pages will show the processes and procedures required in order to transfer a Drupal system from one server to another. The concepts though can be applied to any database driven application.

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Who want to be stuffed by the way?
Readers should understand now...
Thx Steve...keep us informing!
Can u guide me about web hosting
And all of these pages seems to me helpful to show the processes and procedures required in order to transfer a Drupal system from one server to another...Thx!

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Buyer beware

Web hosting, it can be confusing, what you actually get for your hard earned money. I can't really recommend any particular company at this point in time.

What you should be aware of is that a physical hard-drive has finite amount of storage, whether it be 50, 200, 500 or 750 gb. Lets assume you sign up with a web host and they claim you have unlimited storage. That is impossible and they can't honour that agreement. If your account is on a 200 gb hard-drive, then the absolute max is 200 gb and that's if you are the only account on the hard-drive, which wouldn't be the case. You would probably be one of anywhere between 100 to 300, maybe more, accounts. Advertising unlimited this and unlimited that is known as over-selling and I consider that a downright deceitful practice. Read the terms and conditions, the fine print, and you'll notice that it's not really unlimited anything. They will not allow you to simply use the server as your personal back-up space (photos etc.)

So, what I'm saying is when comparing hosts do not dismiss hosts that actually specify a storage limit eg. 10 or 20 gb, because in reality that is what your limit will be with the so-called unlimited storage hosts. Buyer beware.

I've also re-read this entire book and I've just realized that I haven't finished it completely, the last bit about fiddling with the Drupal settings file to hook back into the imported old database. That's now on my to-do list.

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