Scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.

From GPU-powered inference and Kubernetes to managed databases and storage, get everything you need to build, scale, and deploy intelligent applications.

This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!
These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.
Accepted Answer
I was able to get this working, finally! I finally discovered what I was doing wrong in downgrading to PHP 7.4 and the MySQL plugin. I had to install php7.4-mysql. Once I did that, I could get back into WP and finish the import. Now I’m comparing settings and upgrading back to PHP 8
Thank you for your assistance.
Hey!
Yep, that PHP 7 to PHP 8 jump could definitely be causing issues. Especially if your old plugins or themes aren’t fully compatible. All-in-One WP Migration sometimes struggles with large imports or version mismatches I think.
You can try increasing the PHP upload/import limits on the new server.
Also, if you’re comfortable with SSH, you can also import the .wpress file directly into the wp-content/ai1wm-backups folder and restore from there.
And if you’re still stuck, you might want to spin up a PHP 7 droplet temporarily, complete the import, then upgrade PHP after verifying the site.
Let me know how it goes!
- Bobby