Description

Doing The Work

1. Using an s/FTP client like FileZilla | A very common, free FTP software for Windows, Linux and OSX
2. Server to server using scp | Secure Copy, is based on SSH (Secure Shell) and is probably the fastest method

Example scp command using a hostname: scp example.org.tar.gz username@example.com:site_move/example.org.tar.gz
Example scp command using an ip address: scp database_name.sql username@192.168.123.253:site_move/database_name.sql

Both of these commands assume:
→ you are on the SOURCE (existing) server and in the “site_move” directory we created earlier
→ that the same directory exists on the TARGET (new) server
→ That your username on the TARGET (new) server is “username”

3. Using wget | If your backup is available on the internet, you can use wget to download it to the new VPS or dedicated server if you have command line access.

Let’s say you’ve moved the backup you created in Step 1 to a location accessible by you online at:

https://example.org/site_move/example.org.tar.gz
https://example.org/site_move/database_name.sql

1. Login to the TARGET (new) server where example.com will be hosted and navigate to ~/site_move: cd ~/site_move

If the directory does not exist, create it and move into it with this command: mkdir site_move; cd site_move

2. Next give the following commands:
   wget https://example.org/site_move/example.org.tar.gz
wget https://example.org/site_move/database_name.sql
3. You can also download the latest WordPress this way: wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip