This is a follow up to a recent chat session. I’m trying to move smartflat.solutions to cheap shared hosting on https://www.webhostface.com/
I’m reducing the number of sites hosted on WPMU so that I can increase the townsoftoday.uk multisite to a higher spec within the monthly hosting credit. I’m also shifting old projects that are on hold to cheaper hosting until they get revived.
The Shipper preflight doesn’t recognise the WHF shared host, calling it ‘other’. It should be apache, as far as I know. It’s a pretty standard cPanel linux/php host. Unfortunately, I’ve never got the Snapshot plugin to work on it. I have the DNS on Cloudflare but it should be bypassing their optimisations and using DNS only at least until migration is complete.
Using the Shipper API migration (either direction) the migration freezes at 30-50% and sits for up to 48 hours until I cancel it. Sometimes the progress will show a number like 4000 of 11000 and then a few minutes later change to 500 of 11000 until it creeps up again.
Using the package migration fails after a few minutes with an unspecified error and no error log. Guidance on database settings for package migration is inadequate. On an earlier attempt, it’s possible the package was corrupt in some way as the table prefix did not appear in the installer screen. After I recreated the package, the prefix was prefilled in the installer db form.
WHF is a cheap and low spec hosting service but their support is very good and I have a subscription for at least the next 1-2 years. They will do a manual migration from a backup. However, it would be helpful if Shipper and Snapshot worked correctly. I’d like to continue to us it for staging and smaller, lower traffic sites.
Hope this helps you improve Shipper.
