Enhance Documentation

# Move Site to New Server

The move website tool allows you to quickly move whole website or individual services (ie: email) belong to a websites between servers on your Enhance cluster (Shared or Dedicated).

Enhance will automatically update the DNS for websites that use Enhance. If a website's DNS is hosted externally, this will need to be update manually.

The following websites can not be moved between servers on your estate:

  1. The Application role for service websites (opens new window) can not be moved to a new server.
  2. Soft deleted website can not be moved between servers.

# Move website to new server

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It is possible to move websites between different web server types (Apache, LiteSpeed and OpenLiteSpeed)

To move websites between servers on your Enhance cluster:

  1. Open Servers in the left side bar
  2. Select Manage on the server you would like to move the websites from
  3. Scroll to services and select the service you would like to move the websites from and select Move server
  4. When the Move server page loads, click Next and then Start now to confirm the move
  5. You will be pushed to a progress page when you can keep track of the move

or

  1. Open Websites in the left side bar
  2. Select one or more websites that you would like to move and click Move server
  3. When the Move server page loads, click Next and then Start now to confirm the move
  4. You will be pushed to a progress page when you can keep track of the move

or

  1. Open Move server in the left side bar
  2. Click 'New migration' this will push you to the Websites page
  3. Select one or more websites that you would like to move and click Move server
  4. When the Move server page loads, click Next and then Start now to confirm the move
  5. You will be pushed to a progress page when you can keep track of the move

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When a server move is in progress, you can move away from the page. You will be notified when the move is complete.

# Troubleshooting

If moving websites between servers on your cluster fails, please;

  1. If you are using an external firewall, allow all ports (TCP) between servers in your cluster (These ports do not need to be open to the wider internet). Enhance uses ephemeral ports for RPC.

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