Posted: 4/30/2010 2:58:12 PM EDT
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Got roped in to uploading a new website for a client (not normally my thing). Ready to go this morning - requested the files from the web designer at 8:30am. Finally get the link to the files at 6pm & client thinks the site will be up and running in a few minutes. The website files are in a 349Mb zip file, and the designers server only gives me a 38k download speed!!! I've then got to unpack it and re-upload it to the hosted server. The site also has a MySQL db with it - I have the SQL script, but the SQL login details I've been given don't log me in from the MySQL Workbench program...and we are starting a long weekend here, so no-one around until Tuesday morning. Not one of the better days I've had...  |
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Do you have SSH access to the server you will be hosting the site on? If not, perhaps contacting the webhost support team and seeing if they can either give you temp access or transfer the file for you.
You could perform a simple wget command to transfer the zip file from the designers server to your new server skipping the download/upload from your personal pc. You can also unpack the zip on the new server. Chances are you will get much faster download speeds as well between the two servers instead of going through the middle man of your personal pc and connect. This may be to late, but next time just give your webhosts support team the link to the file. and ask them to transfer it to your account and unpack it. Any reasonable host should do this for you, it take very little effort and time. Its simple two lines in a command prompt. |
No wonder...