So we needed to make a server / host move after the company we were with started closing unresolved help desk tickets and went down for 24 hours last week without responding to any tweets (help desk was down) or help desk tickets after their main sites server came back up. In fact nobody has heard anything from them as far as I know.

Anyway, I backed up my sites using the back up function in cpanel (FTP kept timing out so I couldn’t just download public_html) and changed my nameservers with Godaddy. After the domain was switched to the new server I ran into a problem. When I tried to restore the back up I made while on the old server it wouldn’t work at all no matter what I did.

So what is a girl to do? I changed my nameservers back to the old ones, downloaded my files via FTP onto my laptop, then used phpadmin to export my mysql databases in gzipped files. Then I switched to the new nameservers AGAIN and then uploaded all the files manually. Whew that was really as much of a pain in the ass as it looks … TRUST ME.

But here is the thing, all of the accounts were set up the same, had the same files & databases as on the old server but, the images that were uploaded by Jenn on her blog via WordPress are coming up as broken images yet if you click on them it will take you right to the picture in the uploads folder. Now, Kat has done the same thing uploading images to her blog but, they are fine. I don’t get it do you?