Few days ago, I was working for one my clients from the USA. I was asked to transfer his site from BlueHost to HostGator! The task was so easy. I told him that, it may require around one hour to transfer his entire site.
But, when I logged in to the cPanel, I wonder that, total file size to be transferred is around 1GB. It’ll take two and half hours ONLY to download the site to my local server! Now what?
I used the script below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 | <html> <head> <title>How to transfer large files from one server to another in seconds - Nazmul Ahsan</title> </head> <body> <form method="post"> <input name="url"size="50" /> <input name="submit" type="submit" /> </form> <?php set_time_limit (24 * 60 * 60); if (!isset($_POST['submit'])) die(); // $destination_folder = 'download/'; $url = $_POST['url']; $newFile = basename($url); $file = fopen ($url, "rb"); if ($file) { $newf = fopen ($newFile, "wb"); if ($newf) while(!feof($file)) { fwrite($newf, fread($file, 1024 * 8 ), 1024 * 8 ); } } if ($file) { fclose($file); } if ($newf) { fclose($newf); } ?> </body> </html> |
How to use:
- Create a new file on your destination server. Say,
file.php - Copy the code above and paste it to
file.php - Go to your source server via file manager/FTP. Zip entire site.
- Run your
file.phpand give the URL of zipped file of the source. Click Submit. Wait for seconds till the page reloads. - Go to destination server. Amazing! The file is here! Unzip it.
- You are done! It’ll take dramatically very small time!
Note: if you wish to move the files to a specific folder in the destination, just ‘uncomment’ line# 13 and replace download with your own folder name.
