Running forum on new server

[Cedric]

Alright. Keep us in the loop.

 

[Ravenfreak]

If she's worried that the US government is going to take down the forum and if you get things squared away I highly recommend using offshore hosting. People think it's bad because people use it for DMCA ignoring sites, but if it's hosted offshore there's literally nothing the US government can do about it. Just some food for thought. I hope you can figure things out, there's plenty of people here who have moved websites from one host to another, I'm one of those people btw.

 

[Bawse]

You can easily move the website by compressing it to a zip file or something similar. Download the zip file, extract it on the new server. As for the database, first of all, 70MB seems a bit low for that amount of posts. I'm guessing it's more 70GB, depending on the attachments. But if you use cPanel, you can easily download the database and import it on the new server. Then you point the domain to the new server/nameservers and wait for DNS to change over. That's it.

It's peanuts really, I've done it countless times. So if you need help, feel free to ask.

It's very easy to download a backup, and install a site on a new server. I've done it countless times.

The owner should already be downloading regular backups. It's risky not too, you can lose all your hard work.