Is there a way that you can use comand line to move from one server to another with my websites instead of me having to do it from one server company to another.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

Are you asking how to move the contents from one server or site to a new one?

If that is what your asking, once you get the new server all setup, you could use something like wget to grab your site to place on your new server... ?? Please be more specific, you question is vague and doesn't necessarily go into detail exactly what you want to accomplish.

yes that is what i am talking about.

We are looking at changing hosts and I was wondering if there was a way of moving things from the one host to the other without having to ftp into the new one and hand uploading it all as we have years worth of websites and things and i am on dialup most of the time. Therefor it would take forever to upload.

I may be wrong but I think you would need shell access to the old server to pull that off without using a middleman.

Otherwise it's just download everything, then upload it all.

I believe it depends...

Maybe shell access on the new system, and just wget the whole thing over to the new one?
wget -m http://oldone.com
mv oldone.com /var/www/httpd
In httpd.conf
DocumentRoot /var/www/httpd/oldone.com
Save, restart apache check your links to see if they all stand up...

Anyone? Any ideas on this, or suggestions? What I'm suggesting this will do is eliminate the 'middle man' and grab files from host A, place them on host B and no worries for the dial up admin who just issues commands from the fast server they are ssh'd into?

This is all assuming Linux of course, which would make sense since you are here

Cool

of course, thanks for catching that Master C. I suppose shell access to either box might do the trick.

Thanks guys for that help. I really appreciate it. I have never done this before. I had a friend one time help me out moving from one server to another when one of my old hosts had messed up on the server they had put me on. So i was trying to upload everything because i had never delt with Linux before that. Now though I am running out dedicated server myself and have learned alot more and from what i had learned I thought it was possible just didnt know how to. Thanks everyone for all the help.

I will try and help others when ever it is possible for me I am just not sure how much help i can be.

Thanks All

You're welcome, I hope everything works out.

As a side note:
You can always look at hosting your own. That's a very viable solution when using Linux, as it doesn't take much serving power for low-moderate sites. And assuming large site, even then it doesn't take the INIAC usually

Cool

Well we are practically hosting our own as i do all the maitaince and everything on our dedicated server we are just tlaking about just using that server and doing away with our other server.

Thanks all