Transfer accounts, blogs and databases Part 1

I am busy since last weekend, moving or transferring accounts from one server to another. I managed to wrote some proccess here. Moving accounts between servers is new experience for me. But I learn a lot from the process.

I wrote about transfer accounts from one cpanel server to another cpanel server, and i didn’t aware the transfer effected email system on the server. So if you use my way to transfer accounts on CPanel like the way i did, please consult your host.

I’m not only moving accounts, but also moving and upgrade blogs, in the case WordPress blogs.
Moving and upgrade WordPress between server has same way with upgrading WordPress in one server. First step, you must copy identical blogs on both servers. If you transfer accounts like the way before and it has the same WordpPress version, it’s easy, you only upgrade WordPress, but if you can’t move your accounts like CPanel did and it has different WordPress version you must :
1. Backup your WordPress database. Export yourWordPress database to sql format with options ADD DROP TABLE and COMPLETE INSERTS
2. Backup your WordPress files to your local harddisk. It’s okay if you backup with your plugins all enabled.
3. Import your backup database to your new server.
4. Upload your backup WordPress files to your new server with wp-config.php settings to your new server’s database.

[Continue to Part 2]