Temple Migration - A Romance Adventure

Ok, so I had a bunch of Drupal sites to migrate from my old web host to my new one - Media-Temple. English words cannot describe how much more satisfied I am with (mt) compared with my old, nameless host. Just imagine me floating dreamily in a lake of Lindt chocolate - you get the idea. It took me a while to get the info together, so here's my experience in brief:

(I'm using a Media-Temple Grid-Server account. )

How to migrate Drupal from host-X to Media Temple:

1. Upgrade your old site to the same version of Drupal you're migrating too, including module/theme updates
2. Backup your database and make sure you know how to restore it. Navicat is the best there is for MySQL management.
3. Add alternate domain to account via (mt) account control panel - example.com
4. Using FTP client or the (mt) control panel, delete the newly created directory for the domain under the ‘domains’ directory
5. Create a directory example.com under html/sites/
6. SSH into server using your account username and pword
7. go to the domains directory, type: cd domains
8. make a symlink from your primary (mt) domain to the new domain folder by typing: ln –s primary-domain.com example.com
9. create a database at (mt) (only do this if you are using a dedicated Drupal db for this domain)
10. add your database user to permissions read/write
11. copy drupal an original sites/default/settings.php file to html/sites/example.com
12. edit settings.php and change database line to newly created database (or existing shared db)
13. run example.com/install.php
    in browser. DB should install
14. upload any modules/themes that were in use on the site and enable them
15. restore old DB up to new DB and pray