Yup. That's pretty much it. Remember that there are two components: the database and the associated drupal file directory. Unless you directly reference an IP address or a directory structure (/home/foo/bar/baz/) for something that may be set up differently on the new host, you're done.
<br><br>This is pretty much how one promotes an initial site from dev to production.<br><br>ari<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Roy Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:roy@panix.com">
roy@panix.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="">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.
<div><br></div><div>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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