Moving Customers

A few weeks back I have written about moving my freelance customers to a new server. Although I managed to buy the new at the end of last month, I only managed to move three out of twelve.

So a quarter is done, three quarters to do.

Moving the websites isn’t a tedious task. Copy the database, copy the files, change credentials and finally flip DNS over to the new server.

But moving the EMails is hard. Not only do the inboxes need to be synced to the new server, but also the customer needs to change the configuration on its side.

So the move needs to be worked out on one day when the customer has time to change their credentials. Because I have a bunch of work at my day job, only a few hours in the evenings are left. Most days my customers don’t have time at that time of the day.

I think it will take at least another month till all are on the new server. Meanwhile, I have to pay both which really hurts my income. My tax consultant also told me that I would need to have a small revenue this year or the ministry of finance will close down my business.

Fun times :)