Migration How To
Before Migration, please make sure you have check this first :
1. Please check with Sales whether there will be additional cost for the migration ( if customer wish to migrate their account to another server for some reasons ). At least Sales and Billing know about the migration
2. Please check the current NameServerS before migration, There are 2 commons here :
– If the domain is under SIT nameserver, we can just set the time and schedule it with customer
– If the domain is not under SIT nameserver, then we need to provide the IP address of new server to their customer to change the DNS records OR they can just use SIT nameservers ( by this, we have to add all DNS records on SIT nameserver
3. Inform customer via Email about when and time you will the migration, if customer didnt respond the email, please call customer.
Resolution
Shared Hosting to Dedicated Server
1. Make sure that the time zone on Dedicated server is correctly
2. Make sure that the limit connection for POP/IMAP is being set to unlimited
Workaround
Plesk to Plesk
1. Use PMM tool ( Plesk Migration Tool )
2. Log in to the Plesk Control Panel ( New Server ) and select Tools & Settings.
– Under the Tools & Resources section, click on Migration & Transfer Manager.
– Click Start New Migration.
– Fill in the details for your old server and enter your migration preferences. Then, click Next.
– Data source: Transfer data from another server.
– Source host name or IP address: This should be the IP address for your old server, or a domain that resolves to your old server.
– “22” is the standard port for SSH. Use the default setting of 22 unless you have changed the listening port to something else.
– Username: root
– Password: The root password for your old server.
– Temporary Files Location: Leave as default.
– Transfer the following data: You can transfer everything, or only selected data.
3. The Transfer Pre-Check screen will let you know if there are any issues that need to be resolved before proceeding. In this example, several Apache modules need to be installed/enabled before proceeding.
4. In a few minutes or a few hours, depending on how much data needs to be transferred, your migration will finish, and you will see the final status of the migration in the Progress section.
Sitemanager to Plesk
1. Create new account on Plesk Server
2. Recreate email account using Plesk linux command using this script grabpw.pl , you can see on this link
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