How do I move a website to a new cluster?

titodj

I posted about a problem with my current cluster and the vps's I'm using.
Something in the VPS configuration is causing random crashes.

Plus after posting about the problem I realized that my setup was not ideal, I was having the control and websites using the same VPS. (so I will start the install from scratch but I need to keep and move 2 websites)

I just deployed a small VPS to host just the control.
A dedicated server to host websites.
And another VPS instance to handle backups.

My question is.
Should I move the current websites to one of my random crashing VPS, and then decommission it from my current setup, and the connect in the new setup to move to the dedicated server?
Or what's the best way to do it? (currently I have a server holding the backups from my curren setup, can I use those backups to restore the websites? )

Thanks for your help!!

twest

There's no way to intermingle two different clusters at the moment. Consider the old cluster completely cut off on its own.

As for moving the two sites, I migrate sites the same way on all kinds of servers = if it's under 1gb size I will use Updraft Plus plugin to grab backups of everything, upload those files to new hosting, update DNS to point at the new hosting, restore the site using updraft and those backup files.

If the site is over 1gb, I use ssh to zip the wp-content folder, dump the DB, use wget on the new server to download the files off the old server, restore the files + db.

If you want to restore the site seamlessly without any downtime using the updraft method, can always use your computers hosts file to be able to work on the new hosting/site without updating its DNS until after the site is fully restored.

If your DNS provider is anycast like Cloudflare, then changes only take a minute to go thru, so it's not like it's a lot of downtime migrating however you want, few minutes never hurt anyone.

titodj

twest Thank you...

I'm guessing updraft is a WP plugin?
This 2 websites are Laravel based.

Both under 1 GB but I can't compress them from the file manager on enhance.

twest

titodj yes WP plugin, for other apps you can always ssh into the directory and zip it all up. I'm not at my comp at the moment but I think all the websites (accounts) are under /var/www/

If you've never used zip in command line before, well it's very easy. You can cd into the parent directory of a folder you want to zip and do something like:
zip -r backup.zip foldername

Then just download that zip and upload it to your other server's new website (account).

If you're not very familiar with command line, I'd highly recommend learning basic usage, some YouTube videos would be good. It's not just for things like migrating sites, but also useful for debugging issues, optimizing, and maintenance.

You could even use your new server to download the file off your old server. I do that all the time because my servers have vastly superior internet connections then my home internet. I have 1Gbps home internet down and 25Mbps up, whereas my servers have 10Gbps lines up/down and can typically download files off each other at insane speeds. Like transferring a 10GB file in a matter of seconds lol

titodj

twest Thank you VERY much!!

I'm not too familiar with the command line but confident enough to do that!
Again, thanks!!