I’ve finished transferring every site from my old shared hosting account to my new dedicated server with SoftLayer. I would have finished earlier, but the sites I had left to transfer were small and did not require a lot of server resources to run, so I wasn’t as worried about transferring those sites as I was about transferring my big vBulletin forums. Either way, I’m done with the server transfer and think I’ll close out my old hosting account now. I may see if PlatinumServerManagement can set up a system to send backup files from my dedicated server onto my old hosting account or I may just stick with their current system of backing up files.

I have only experienced some downtime twice and both times for only five minutes. I received automatic email updates when the server was not responding from SoftLayer and then automatic updates from PlatinumServerManagement as they fixed the problem. I get a lot of satisfaction out of seeing problems resolved without involving me to get involved to take care of them

If you want to read my first two parts of my server transfer experience check them out here:

Moving to a new server part 1

Moving to a new server part 2

Now that the server transfer is completely out of the way I have a bunch of stuff planned to work on, including a lot of updates to this blog.