Just want to post an update here...

I got my site moved last weekend. I accomplished it by following these steps:

1. copy all directories and files over to the new site.
This effectively installed UBBT 7.5.3
Set permissions according to http://www.ubbcentral.com/doc_install.php

2. Create the database manually (I tried using the full backup method from the old site, but the install threw an error on the Create Database step -- invalid name, I think. New site required a specific prefix to the DB name.)

3. Took a UBB threads backup of the old forum, downloaded all the files (one for each table). Then using phpMyAdmin on the new site, imported each table one at a time. This took the longest time in all the process.

4. Changed the DNS registration to point to the new server.

5. Edited includes/config.inc.php and changed the paths where the ip-address was used to use URL addressing.

6. After a few hours waiting for the DNS change to propagate, the new site was up and working.

7. Had to tweak the webcam software, changing a few path designations to upload to the proper locations.

I realize I am still running the old 7.5.3 version. So I'll get going on upgrading to 7.5.6 pretty soon.

I sure appreciate everyone's helping out here, especially Ruben's. I could not have completed the project without the help.

Glad to hear it went smooth! I moved mine to a new host a few months ago and did it just about the same way.

Great,It worked. Now you see why item 3 sucks.
Especially when you have a big board.
And when it gets really big PHPmyadmin will stall on you also.

Before you upgrade just double check all of your enabled features work as you expect.

I just discovered a problem in the migration of my forum to the new server. It seems that some people's posts have special characters for apostrophes and double quotes. Any post that had one of those characters got truncated at that character. The characters are hex 92, 93, and 94.

I am curious how these characters got into the posts. I know that Microsoft Word uses them by default -- the characters are
more “curly” as you can see around that word. And the apostrophe (’) has a slant to it. So if a message is composed on Word, then pasted into a post, that would carry the new characters over.

Here’s “curly”   (Note the apostrophe, too.)
Here's "straight"

For an example of the problem, look at the Wilderness Permit Options post.  I can fix each post, but it will take quite some time.

Unfortunately for everyone, this problem would show up for anyone doing a restore of their ubbt_POSTS table.

...or is there a way to tell the backup to also "Escape" those characters? In my ubbt_POSTS.sql backup file, all the standard apostrophes within the posted text have a backslash (\) in front of them, and they were imported properly.