Thank you for sharing.

I recently used the Duplicator plugin (http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/) to move a WordPress installation from a shared host to a VPS. As it was an eCommerce site and prolonged periods of downtime were out of the question, I studied WP Duplicator carefully over a period of two weeks and during that time I made a couple of dry runs before actually switching to the new host.

Duplicator is very elegant and robust, perhaps the author of this article would be kind enough to check it herself?