Migrating From Ning - Can Large Sites Successfully Migrate?

Hello
I would like to migrate my site from NING to another platform such as JAMROOM. My site has 15,000 members and a huge number of photos videos and pages. I am looking for a platform that I can host on my Amazon server and that I control 100%
I paid a designer in Italy last year to try and fix/rewrite the code for BUDDYPRESS but in the end it turned out to be impossible to migrate using it.
Does anyone have experience migrating a large site to JAMROOM? I would be looking to hire someone who could make this happen
Thanks
Curtis
updated by @derrickhand300: 06/28/16 07:26:41AM

Hi Curtis - welcome to Jamroom!

15,000 members isn't too large - Jamroom should be able to handle that no problem for you. Unless your committed to AWS I'd recommend alternate hosting (from my experience EC2 is underpowered in the CPU department compared to other offerings).

How many photos and videos do you have? Are your videos hosted elsewhere (say YouTube) or are they local?

Hope this helps!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

FYI - Another Ning site with 13500 members has just successfully imported their entire Ning archive to Jamroom.
We have an import tool that does it all for you that you can use yourself (they did) or we can do it for you -
https://www.jamroom.net/ning-to-jamroom/serviceshop
hth
Pa


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Here are the docs for the import tool -
https://www.jamroom.net/ning-to-jamroom/documentation/ning2jamroom


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Hi - That looks an interesting site
Yes, Jamroom is HTML5 compliant and all imported videos will play on Apple devices.
What I suggest you do is get your hosting set up on AWS (but note what Brian has said about AWS above) and install the free Jamroom Core there. You'll also need to export your Ning archive from your site, then upload it to a folder alongside the Jamroom install. See the Ning Import docs (link above) about this.
Out of the box, the free Jamroom Core will be able to import all your members and their blogs. To import videos, photos and other Ning items appropriate Jamroom modules then need to be installed. When you get to that stage, let me know and I'll install a couple for you to try out.
Let us know if you need any help with any of the above.
Pa


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Just want to add again that for a site your size I'd recommend going with a VPS provider like Linode:

https://www.linode.com/pricing

the 4GIG Linode should run your site REALLY well (much faster than AWS). The problem with EC2/EBS is that they are VERY slow for what you actually get. EBS is slow (unless you pay for the dedicated IOPS) and JR will utilize the file system quite a bit.

I've used Linode for years - they're new VPS servers are super powerful and the SSD disk you get is super fast (1Gbps) - Jamroom runs awesome on it.

Hope this helps!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net