You may or may not have noticed some uptime / server response issues with geekhut – this is because we have moved!  Our friend Randy Powell at GSMCall has graciously donated several powerful VPS boxes for geekhut, rappiddev and enumplus (among others) and we could not be happier.  Since I was so pleased with this service Randy and I came to an agreement to host all of our clients on a similar VPS box complete with a User Panel I have been tirelessly working on for a few weeks now.

One of the biggest problems switching hosts is migrating email accounts, luckily we use Zimbra and it was extremely simple – this is how I did it :

imapsync –nosyncacls –subscribe –syncinternaldates –host1 old.server.tld –user1 user@domain.tld –password1 password –host2 new.server.tld –user2 user@domain.tld –password2 password

IMAP Sync is a wonderful application that can easily be installed on RHEL5 / CentOS using the DAG repository (just google “DAG”).  There are three or four Perl dependencies to get it working however once you have everything installed you are ready to import.

This is more or less a note for my own records – hopefully you will find it useful as well.