update:
server is up, but the switch from CentOS and cPanel to a completely raw Windows Server 2012 is brutal. First tried using WebsitePanel but it was a bloated mess. Then tried zPanel but didn't know I had to uninstall everything I preloaded for it since it had its own package. Finally have that up and running. Now trying to restore these massive nearly 1GB dbs and had to get a PHP script to chunk them for me.. given Comcast sucks dick and my upload rate is 5mbps at best, getting all the site data over will take a bit, then trying to get a vB configured for Linux worked with a Windows environment.
Give it another day or two. Been working on it on and off for 8 hours or so now.
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