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How do you migrate from another VPS to DO?

Posted on February 22, 2013

I am using another VPS provider with 10+ domains, mainly running WordPress. What’s your strategy of moving 10+ WordPress sites to DO?

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Kamal Nasser

July 25, 2013

@daniel: We have an article on migrating to DigitalOcean from a different VPS provider: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/migrate-your-current-vps-linode-rackspace-aws-ec2-to-digitalocean Please let me know if that helps.

horaceh

March 1, 2013

I ended up: - Create DNS records on DigitalOcean - mysqldump and zip databases on old VPS - scp database dumps and sites files from old VPS to DO - restore databases on DO - update wp-config.php (if applicable) - update name servers on domain registrar

nikopufal

February 26, 2013

Can’t you just create an image of your current server and restore it on DigitalOcean? Isn’t that possible? That’s what I was thinking to do with my Linode account when migrating. I should have it automated via Puppet, but I don’t… And I also have a complex environment setup, with Ruby, Nginx and a bunch of stuff. No point to do it all over again.

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