How does one properly migrate a web site to Brownrice?

First, please know that Brownrice will migrate one customer site per service free of charge for new customers.  We're very good at this and happy to do it.

However, if you are migrating multiple sites on your own into a VPS or dedicated server, these are the instructions that we use:

Pre-migration check list:

• Ensure that you have access to your old host's DNS control panel.
• Ensure that you have FTP or SSH and database (phpMyAdmin) access to your old host (SSH access is really useful).
• Look up your database username, password, and database names on your old host server and save them somewhere so you can refer to them in the steps below.  This information is often located in your old host's cpanel or within your web site's code, often in a file called "config.php" or something similar.  It may take some digging to find this.
• If you are also planning on migrating your domain registration to Brownrice, you will need access to your current registrar account.
• Brownrice automatically assigns brownrice.com subdomains for each new service that is set up on our server.  i.e.  If your web site is mygreatsite.com then we'll automatically set up mygreatsite.brownrice.com which will point to your web site on our servers.  Ensure that this is working and pointing to your new, Brownrice server as its important for testing.  If its not please let us know and we'll set it up for you.
• Check your current PHP version on your old host.  Then check it on your new Brownrice server.  If they don't match let us know and we can downgrade or upgrade your PHP version on your new Brownrice server to match. You can also do this yourself through the Dashboard following instructions found here.