Web Hosting : Tranferring site from virtual server to VPS

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This web hosting thread started by kerryww on 13 December 2008

After having my site on an Win2k3 virtual server for the last 10 years I’ve finally bitten the bullet and purchased a VPS account.

My site is an old legacy of MS Frontpage, complete with FPSE, Access databases, asp, html pages and lots of images. Total size is just over 4Gb.

I’ve tried publishing the site using MS ExpressionWeb direct from the virtual server to the VPS, plus I’ve tried to Publish them from the backup on my PC. Nothing works. I just get error after error after error.

EW starts to publish and maybe will run for 4 hours before throwing up an error saying that it can’t find the web server or FPSE aren’t installed. They are basically the same old error messages that all of Microsoft’s Frontpage and Expression Web software have been throwing up since the day Frontpage was first marketed back in 1998! If they can’t solve the problem you’d at least think they could change the error messages.

I’ve tried uploading them via FTP but without the MS server extensions the child webs aren’t created so therefore I just end up with permission problems and nothing works properly – the nightmare continues…

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