Server to Server FTP transfer
Posted On Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 By Ravi
It is not an easy job migrating server. Particularly if you host your sites with someone who don’t offer ssh access. If all that you have got is ftp access, not to worry, just make sure that your new provider offers ssh. Indyahozting doesnt offer ssh, and not many hosting providers do. They are all worried about hacking. But it is safe as long as you firewall everyhting and make sure that your root access is absolutely safe. Get a VPS and get into the shell and cd to the folder of the website that you have created on the new server which you want to copy from the old server ftp hostname port is the format. So if your server is with indyahozting just type ftp indyahozting.com 21. The port 21 is default with all providers, as without ftp there is no hosting company. It will ask you for the username and password and once you enter that, it will say that the connectin is ok. You might want to cd into the directory from which you need to get all your files. There use mget -r * This ftp command will get all the files recursively from sub Continue Reading