Best route to Upgrade from plesk 8.4

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Best route to Upgrade from plesk 8.4

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We currently have a dell managed server with Plesk 8.4, Cent OS 5.3, PHP 5.2.9 and MySQL 5.0.83 and ASL of course.

Our hosting provider says migrate over to a new server, which is ok but we have 180domains and Plesk Migrations never goes great.

We could have Plesk 9 on CentOS or Plesk 10 on to Ubuntu 10.04.

I have no experience with Ubuntu and I don’t believe ASL works either.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Best route to Upgrade from plesk 8.4

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I've been thinking about upgrading my dedicated server from CentOS 5.x Plesk 8.6 to a newer Plesk release. But to be honest, the thought of upgrading a live production server, scares the heck out of me. SOOOOO many things can go wrong.
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Re: Best route to Upgrade from plesk 8.4

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Take the parallel server route then. After 8.6 there are huge changes going on behind the scenes, internal and external. Set up another box and start migrating a few users to it at first to see how they react, that way you dont get mobbed all once with problems. There will be a lot of what I call "level 0" ones (Where did button X go?) due to the way the interface itself changes.
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Re: Best route to Upgrade from plesk 8.4

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I've never had an issue with the Migration manager. It works pretty well and, because it's only copying data, you don't have to worry about something being messed up.
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Re: Best route to Upgrade from plesk 8.4

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Many Thanks

I'm warming to the second server solution. The migration fails for me on Mysql Stored prodecues and views dont know why. no a big problem.

Our hosting comany to give us a new server wants to increase our hosting costs by over 40%!

Would security updates come under most managed server contracts?
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