Move Site to New Server
The move website tool allows you to quickly move a whole website or individual services (e.g., email) belonging to a website between servers on your LxRoot cluster (Shared or Dedicated).
LxRoot will automatically update the DNS for websites that use LxRoot. If a website's DNS is hosted externally, this will need to be updated manually.
Move Restrictions
The following websites cannot be moved between servers on your LxRoot cluster:
- The Application role for service websites cannot be moved to a new server.
- Soft deleted websites cannot be moved between servers.
Move website to new server
It is possible to move websites between different web server types (Apache, LiteSpeed, and OpenLiteSpeed).
It is not possible to move the database role for websites which are utilizing the Caching_sha2_password authentication plugin between different database kinds (MariaDB and MySQL). To move a website with Caching_sha2_password, you will need to delete all users and re-add them with mysql_native_password.
Methods to initiate a move:
Option A: From Server Management
- Open Servers in the left sidebar.
- Select Manage on the server you would like to move the websites from.
- Scroll to services, select the service you would like to move the websites from, and select Move server.
- When the Move server page loads, click Next and then Start now to confirm the move.
- You will be pushed to a progress page where you can keep track of the move.
Option B: From Website Listing
- Open Websites in the left sidebar.
- Select one or more websites that you would like to move and click Move server.
- Follow the same confirmation steps as Option A.
Option C: From Migration Tool
- Open Move server in the left sidebar.
- Click 'New migration'; this will push you to the Websites page.
- Select your websites and follow the same confirmation steps as Option A.
When a server move is in progress, you can move away from the page. You will be notified when the move is complete.