Russ wrote: > How would you go about something like this? Do you just pay for an extra > host as a backup and not use it? How do you synchronize your db, etc.
For a simple site the 'things to move' usually breaks out to: - code Easy, will be in your repository on another location. - email Is only really a consideration if you store mail on the server instead of locally. Even then it is easy to backup and delaying or even loosing a few hours of email is usually survivable for a business. (The simplest way to do your backups is to set up another e-mail server and do a 'forward and keep a copy' on your primary mailserver. That other server can even be at your own home since it is essentially a write-only server you just do a bulk upload of .mbox files to your new host if you ever need to restore mail that was stored on the server). - uploads Easy to do a remote backup over FTP at the interval you are comfortable with. - databases Depends on database and hoster. Some databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) allow for remote backups and you can do your own backups at the interval you are comfortable with. For MS SQL Server you depend on the hoster for backups because backups are written to the local filesystem and that is typically not accessible to you. (For our MS SQL Server shared hosting we do hourly backups and if customers want they can get a copy FTP'ed to their site FTP account.) In order to move it you need: - a place to host. - control over DNS so you can point your site to the new host. Something you should not forget is IP dependencies at business partners. If you are doing transactions with third parties that have a list of allowed IP addresses you need to make sure you can either update those IP addresses instantaneously or you register the fallback IP addresses beforehand. A good way to start planning this is to go over the archive of all your communications with your current hoster and see what they had to do to get you set up, because your new host probably has to do the same for you. Once you have that, set up a mirror on a local development server and see what you run in to. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:299730 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
