# How to switch Discourse servers?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-switch-discourse-servers/251973
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [January 17, 2023, 3:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-switch-discourse-servers/251973 "2023-01-17T03:11:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@xebiyen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xebiyen)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 3:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-switch-discourse-servers/251973/1 "2023-01-17T03:11:59Z")
Hi!
I have a Digital Ocean server and I want to migrate to Hetzner, how do I do that? Do you have any tutorials?
Do I backup my Discourse and then do I create a clean install of Discourse and upload the previous backup? What comes back? The users? Topics? Images? etc?
But for that I should backup my old server and put it on the new one?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 4:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-switch-discourse-servers/251973/4 "2023-01-17T04:53:45Z")
We have a guide for that at [Move your Discourse Instance to a Different Server](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-your-discourse-instance-to-a-different-server/15721)
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### Author:  [@xebiyen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xebiyen)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 5:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-switch-discourse-servers/251973/5 "2023-01-17T05:04:32Z")
Thanks for answering, as I’m using a translator, some things were confusing for me, so does that mean I don’t need to do anything on the server? just the backup of discourse?
so it means that I don’t need to do anything on the server
only the backup and restore of discourse transfers the servers for me
I just have to fix the cloudflare?
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### Author:  [@xebiyen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xebiyen)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-switch-discourse-servers/251973/6 "2023-01-17T17:56:34Z")
well I’m going to wait for this confirmation because I’m afraid of not doing anything on the server and deleting everything
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### Author:  [@xebiyen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xebiyen)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-switch-discourse-servers/251973/7 "2023-01-19T18:14:12Z")
I did the following
I have my website on the digital ocean forum as I always used it
On the new hetzner server I installed discourse
but now I don’t understand how to pull people’s data from the other server so they can log in to the new server, that is, use their data
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-switch-discourse-servers/251973/8 "2023-01-19T19:06:23Z")
> [@xebiyen](#):
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> but now I don’t understand how to pull people’s data from the other server so they can log in to the new server, that is, use their data
That’s all described in detail on the guide at [Move your Discourse Instance to a Different Server](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-your-discourse-instance-to-a-different-server/15721). Please read and follow it carefully.
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### Author:  [@xebiyen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xebiyen)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-switch-discourse-servers/251973/9 "2023-01-19T20:43:34Z")
sorry, I’m using google translator, some things don’t make sense, but I’ll try another way to translate