Migrating 4 WP installations at once?

  • Dear all
    I have a mighty task to undertake and wondered if anyone has done the same thing. There is one main WP website on our server, with three WP sub-sites in sub-directories. So far with the other, single sites it’s been plain sailing to migrate them with WHMs migration tool, as the new server is with the same company, UKFast. Has anyone done something similar? Is my best bet to keep them as is, or to pick them apart? They are all related to each other. I’d sooner have a little downtime I think rather than be found weeping in a field of broken links ??
    All help genuinely appreciated.
    Andrew Walker

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  • So far with the other, single sites it’s been plain sailing to migrate them with WHMs migration tool, as the new server is with the same company, UKFast.

    First, are you migrating the entire cPanel account to another cPanel account, or are you merely moving the sites?

    If you’re moving the entire cPanel account to another cPanel account, you can use the same WHM migration tool: everything under it (including all websites, email accounts, DNS settings, etc) will be migrated.

    And it doesn’t matter if you’re moving within the same host or from one host to another: if both the source and destination are cPanel, you can use the WHM migration tool on the destination server to do the migration.

    If you’re only moving the sites and not the entire cPanel account or if the SOURCE server does not use cPanel or another control panel supported by the WHM migration tool…

    Are the 4 sites STAND-ALONE WordPress installations, or are they part of a WordPress Multisite network?

    Waiting for your answers so I can provide further guidance.

    Thread Starter giddykipper

    (@giddykipper)

    That’s a quality reply – thank you George.
    1 It’s cPanel to cPanel
    2 Each site is a standalone WP installation
    With hindsight multi-site would have been better but I didn’t know how back then.
    Best
    Andrew

    If it’s cPanel to cPanel migration, just use the same WHM migration tool you used before, if you have access to WHM on the destination server: everything will be migrated automatically.

    (I come from a hosting and server administration background, and I’ve done hundreds of these migrations over the years… manually, using WordPress plugins, and using automated tools from control panels like WHM, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. ?? )

    Thread Starter giddykipper

    (@giddykipper)

    Thank you again, George – you are a steely-eyed missile man and I am in your debt.
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/steely-eyed_missile_man
    All the best
    Andrew

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