Easist way to move existing sites from old account to my new one

[Bob Barr]

I'm in the process of shutting down an old Bluehost account and moving all of my addon domains and subdomains to a new Bluehost account that I've just set up.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to the easiest way to get everything transferred over to the new account?

[programmerq]

If you have SSH enabled on both accounts, the fastest way would be to use rsync. As far as the easiest way, if you are looking for the lowest learning curve, would be to simply download the files using your favorite FTP client and save them to your computer, and then upload those same files to the appropriate location on the new account using the same method.

[farcaster]

Bob, have you checked with tech support through Live Chat yet to see if it's possible that they can do this in one fell swoop for you?

[Bob Barr]

Bob, have you checked with tech support through Live Chat yet to see if it's possible that they can do this in one fell swoop for you?
Thanks, I hadn't thought of that possibility. I'll give them a shout and report back on what they say. That would be awesome if they could do that.

[Bob Barr]

If you have SSH enabled on both accounts, the fastest way would be to use rsync. As far as the easiest way, if you are looking for the lowest learning curve, would be to simply download the files using your favorite FTP client and save them to your computer, and then upload those same files to the appropriate location on the new account using the same method.
Thanks. I don't have SSH enabled on the new account. Perhaps Bluehost can use my existing photo ID to enable SSH on the new account. Otherwise, while using the FTP route may involve a lot of work, it will probably be the most straightforward way to do it.

[Bob Barr]

Things turned out to be much easier than I had anticipated. There was no reason to create the second account at all.

Bluehost support was able to rename my account's primary domain as my newly-acquired domain.