Website migrations, memcached and roundcube. Exciting!

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Free website migration is one of our main selling features here at EvenDivide. We literally take over EVERY aspect of moving a new clients website and take pride in getting it back online, ERROR FREE. For many of our competitors, this process doesn’t go beyond direct cPanel to cPanel transfers. For us, it’s all about making our new clients happy.

Yesterday we had a new client signup that was a running a Drupal based website with a large name provider. Unfortunately the Drupal website was crawling which made the backup process pretty rough but after some waiting I had the files and .sql backups required for a restore. I uploaded the Drupal backup files to our server, loaded up the sql, modified the config files and a few permissions… VOILA! Client back online. Unfortunately this client has his domain hosted with a registrar that is NOTORIOUSLY slow with DNS changes. However, after about 16 hours the domain was finally pointing to our server. Here’s the response I received today after the new client noticed his website was loading from our server.

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Daily backups hosted off server and DNS clustering

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The push to launching had more great progress over the past 24 hours. I’ve been busy doing my best to setup and configure all the addon services and loose ends that were outstanding.

WHMCS is now fully updated, the knowledgebase has some basic articles to get us started, RoundCube webmail is now installed and the rvsitebuilder license was purchased and installed. It all sounds easy on here but that was most of my night last night.

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