[support] How portable are drupal web sites?

[Ari Davidow]

To totally nitpicky, I should have mentioned that the server on which your
database resides will likely change its name (and your tables may have to be
renamed), so the setup fields where you put the database login info will be
changed to accomodate that, and I should have said Drupal
_directories_--there are several associated with the install.

But you get the picture ;-).

ari

On 10/19/07, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>
> As an old-time unix hacker, I know my way around the inside of a web
> server pretty well, but right now I'm in "I want a tool not a hobby" mode
> and need to find a web hosting service for a club I belong to.  There seem
> to be plenty of places out there offering amazing amounts disk/bandwidth/etc
> for amazingly low prices, and it's not clear how to determine which are
> fly-by-night and which are reliable.
> So, the question is, if I go with a hosting service and later decide to
> switch to a different provider, how hard is it to pick up my drupal-based
> site and move it to another host?  Is it as simple as finding another place
> that offers LAMP services, dumping the database, and restoring it onto the
> new server?  And, of course, changing the DNS registration.
>
>
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