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Moving Website Question | Forum

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JoshWho Apr 1 '16

(1)I am soon going to be transferring My social network to a Dedicated server and was just wondering how difficult it could be or not? I am very familiar with transferring websites to other servers but I noticed Oxwall can be special sometimes. Any kind of special tricks I should know?

(2)Also I will have unlimited storage for this dedicated so I was thinking of not using my Amazon Cloud Storage any more but wondering what some people's past experiences with moving a large Oxwall Site.

Would I just copy my s3 folder and then upload it to the local user files folder on my site?

(3) Or should I keep my amazon s3?

The Forum post is edited by JoshWho Apr 1 '16

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ross Apr 4 '16

Josh, just download ow_userfiles folder to your PC and then upload it to the root, so missing files will be added, the current will stay put. Then disable amazon and that's it. No additional "tricks" required.

JoshWho Apr 4 '16

Thank You Ross. I already ended up do it all. I had to change a lot of stuff in the database for some plugins to poll from the new ow_userfiles but after I had it all done the server crapped out on me and I just ended up getting refunded and back to my vps. It took me 14 hours to do everything and it crapped out on me but I did learn a lot more things about how Oxwall works and I guess it wasn't to bad of a experience.

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