Im changing hosting companies and need to change all my work and products, how can I do this?

[johnduo0007]

I have added over 200 products on my oscommerce, but I need to change hosting service because my hosting with globat right now is painly slow.

 

I need to make sure I save all my products correctly, how do I do this? I will literary commit suicide if I loose all my work LOL! :'(

[FIMBLE]

Log into your phpmyadmin from your web site control panel, download your Database to your desktop, making sure you check the download options first.

I suggest you use the drop if table exists function.

Do an install on your new server, or code the configure.php files by hand, then upload your database to the new server.

You could also use the admin back up to make a back up and restore on your new server, i have found this way is not as reliable tho

Regards

Nic

[Historian]

Log into your phpmyadmin from your web site control panel, download your Database to your desktop, making sure you check the download options first.

I suggest you use the drop if table exists function.

Do an install on your new server, or code the configure.php files by hand, then upload your database to the new server.

You could also use the admin back up to make a back up and restore on your new server, i have found this way is not as reliable tho

Regards

Nic

 

Why should backup using the Admin backup not be as reliable as using the Control Panel?

I have backed up through the control panel. However, to do a site backup now, I backup the database in Admin backup and then FTP the entire site. Why could that be a problem?

[FIMBLE]

It is not always but i have had instances where it has not loaded the back up.

FTP some times fails even though you get a success message.

Its just a fail safe.

Why take the chance with your Data?

[johnduo0007]

Thank you both for the help!!! I try to do it now.

[lindsayanng]

I just wanted to say that globat is BY FAR the worst hosting company on the planet.. My husband's site is on that host and it is SUCH a mess.. anyways, which one did you decide to use?? Are they offering support for moving over your site?

[johnduo0007]

I just wanted to say that globat is BY FAR the worst hosting company on the planet.. My husband's site is on that host and it is SUCH a mess.. anyways, which one did you decide to use?? Are they offering support for moving over your site?

 

Well, im located in Spain, so im going with arsys.es, it's a lot more expensive but I have other sites with them and they load super fast. about support, well, i've never had an oscommerce webstie with them so I still have to see.