Getting Started - Transferring to New Web Host & Store

Transferring to New Web Host & Store

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Topic: Transferring to New Web Host & Store

Posted By: MGatESS
Subject: Transferring to New Web Host & Store
Date Posted: 05-October-2009 at 2:40pm

I'm having loads of trouble changing our ProductCart to a new store.

My company wants to move from one webhost to another. We're moving to JoltDigital.com, I have the account set up, and they've installed a fresh, new copy of ProductCart v3.51 on the site.

Problem is, since my company isn't going to pay for a new license, we're using our existing license which is still active on the old site until the new site is ready to go live. How can I run two stores without paying for two stores so that I can make sure the data from the old store transfers over properly to the new store. I'm already running into data integrity problems just trying to make a copy of the product data so I'm sure it's going to be a long and involved process to get everything moved from one server to another. In order to make the transition as smooth as possible, I really need to have two stores accessible so that I can look between the two to see how they compare (to make sure data transferred over correctly) before I go completely live with the new store.

We have other domain names we can use for "testing purposes", but my problem right now is that I can't work on the new store because the old license is still active on another web server.

Please help ASAP as I need to have this finished before the end of the week!

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~ Mark G.

ESS, Inc. - http://www.endoscopy.com/" rel="nofollow - www.endoscopy.com

Replies:

Posted By: netprofits
Date Posted: 05-October-2009 at 2:51pm

Hi Mark, when we have done this type of thing, we do the following:

1. Shut down the live site. You don't want any changes to the "live" data during the transition.

2. Copy all files and the database to the new site. You would need the old host to give you a backup of the database and the new host to restore the database on their server. This avoids having to migrate data through exports/imports.

3. Change the domain name to point to the new site.

This way there should be no issues with the site or database and the whole process should be completed in a few hours at the most. The only thing that may take longer is changing the name servers for the domain which can take 24-72 hours to take affect.

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Certified ProductCart Developer

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Posted By: JoltDigital
Date Posted: 07-October-2009 at 4:58pm

Please contact us and we will help you with this.

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http://www.joltdigital.com/host_pc.asp - JoltDigital Inc.
1-888-785-5658
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Posted By: MGatESS
Date Posted: 08-October-2009 at 9:19am

Thanks, but I think I've figured out what I need to do.

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~ Mark G.

ESS, Inc. - http://www.endoscopy.com/" rel="nofollow - www.endoscopy.com