Hi everyone, I am troubled with this question ... I have 3 dnn sites hosted at different places and now i have finally found nice place for my sites and would like to move them all there but don't know how.... how not to loose all the content and  users.... if anybody has any idea...

thanks

I have a similar situation in that I'm thinking of consolidating 3 shared server accounts into a single dedicated server account.

You don't mention what versions you're running, but here's what I've found.

* before trying to consolidate instances, upgrade them all to current version DNN - the portal export functionality keeps getting improved upon, and might help to ease the consolidation

* if any of them involve commerce, consider keeping them separate anyway, since commerce sites have unique needs that might also dictate having a unique IP for implementing some decent SSL

* if any of the are either relatively small (page count, etc.) or relatively simple (mostly text/html module), then bite the bullet and manually port over the stuff that doesn't export well. In the long run, you'll have fewer hours involved in current-version/consolidated-account upkeep than you probably would in manually porting over some content

Hope this helps.

Sorry, by 'consolidate instances' all I mean is to try and get all of the different DNN installations into one single installation.

The best scenario I think is to upgrade all of the accounts to the most current version of DNN. In that way, you can move the larger site(s) to a new hosting account, and once they are established, bring the rest of the smaller sites over.

The nice thing about getting all of the sites to a current version FIRST is that the portal export functionality keeps getting markedly better with each DNN version, as does the import/export option on installed modules as they release uogrades too.