Migrating H-Sphere Control Panel - H-Sphere Sysadmin Guide

H-Sphere Sysadmin Guide

Migrating H-Sphere Control Panel

This document provides a general outline on how to migrate H-Sphere to a different server. It is still under development, and any feedback is welcome.

Install H-Sphere on the target server and carefully test it.
Stop H-Sphere CP on the old location. Also make sure users don't perform any data changes, updates, etc. during the migration.
Move H-Sphere system database to the target location.
Change the main H-Sphere server IPs, etc. in the main H-Sphere DB manually, according to the new H-Sphere IP configuration.
Recreate users' accounts on the new location.
Perform IP migration according to the new H-Sphere data.
Move user content (web content, mail content, MySQL DBs, PgSQL DBs)
Check the new location to make sure that the new HS is working correctly.
Start H-Sphere CP on the new location.
Switch DNS to use new IPs; install additional software like tcpproxy to accelerate the process, etc.