Related to my other thread about moving a site, I tried using the Webshell archive feature to create a tar.gz file of my client’s existing site. It failed. Support told me to use FTP instead.
FTP is not reliable for large numbers of files. A single missing file or incorrectly transferred file can render a CMS broken in unpredictable ways. Additionally, FTP eats up more bandwidth and is much slower than downloading or uploading a single tar.gz file. I always try the archive method for large file downloads (and uploads).
I realize that this limitation is not caused by JodoHost. It’s all to do with script timeouts, etc. It would be nice if Parallels could exec() off some shell script to do the archiving and drop the file in the account’s root directory when the job is done. Doesn’t seem like it would be that hard to do. HSphere is all server side java components, which I wouldn’t think are subject to the same sorts of scripting issues that PHP/ASP/etc. are subject to.
Anyway, I’m bummed I have to spend the time downloading and checking a few thousand files rather than dealing with a single tar.gz file. I’m not expecting the world to change just for me (well, at least not in this instance :D)
Tim
