Title: Changing Database Server
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Changing Database Server

 *  [thomasholmes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasholmes/)
 * (@thomasholmes)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-database-server/)
 * My blog has been unavailable since yesterday and my hosting company are telling
   me that the mysql server it is on is under a heavy load. and pointing me to a
   form where I can request a change of database server.
 * I’ve been looking through the codex and through the support forums, but can’t
   find any doco on changing just the actual database server.
 * Is this just a matter of changing the server details in the wp-config.php file?
 * Thanks in advance!
 * Thomas

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-database-server/#post-347079)
 * Well, it depends who is doing the move itself.
    If they (=the host) are going
   to move the DB to another server, backing it up and taking the responsibility
   for that – then the only thing you have to do is to change the BD host name in
   the config file. However, I wouldn’t trust 100% anybody else, so I’d make a backup
   for myself before they start messing around. Hosts tend to… 🙂 If they will give
   you space on another DB server and you have to move over the content of your 
   DB tables — follow: [Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
   and pay attention to the links going to Making a Backup and Restore DB.
 *  Thread Starter [thomasholmes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasholmes/)
 * (@thomasholmes)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-database-server/#post-347148)
 * Thanks Moshu!
 * I think they would take the responsibility for transferring the database. But
   i’d be the same as you, i wouldn’t trust them 100% either! I’ll make backups 
   before anything happens.
 * Thanks again for the info,
 * Thomas

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 * [configuration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/configuration/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [moving](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/moving/)
 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)

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