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Migration from Network Solutions

Posted on July 6, 2014

Hello,

Is there any documentation on how to migrate from a shared hosting server to my new digital ocean VPS?

Thank you



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If you’re not migrating a Wordpress site, you can install a LAMP stack, migrate your MySQL database (you can skip step one and use a database dump from your shared hosting provider), and transfer your files to /var/www.

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