How to speed up a Plesk migration?

Question

How to speed up a Plesk migration?

Answer

The time effort for a migration depends on the following:

• amount of the migrated data

• network bandwidth

• server performance

To speed up a migration, consider to:

• Increase server performance:

  - stop all tasks/processes that are not necessary to run
  - suspend domains before starting a migration. This should only be done in case the websites are allowed to be unavailable while the migration is running.

• Improve network performance:

  - speed up SSH connection by contacting a network administrator for increasing network connection speed

• When migrating via a command-line interface, reduce the amount of data:

  - transfer domains by small bunches (5-10) at once