Moving to a new server

[Esni]

Hello,

We are planning to get a better server and I'm lingering between 2 options. Our plan is to let our old server go, so we need to move all our users from the old server to the new one.

Option 1: We get a completely fresh install to the new server. This allows us to get safely all the newest versions from php4, mysql, awstats and also integrate end-user password change to squirrelmail and maia. The problem is that we have to move all of our users pretty manually.

Option 2: we clone our hdd from the old server to the new one but this might have problems when upgrading the php + mysql since I'm not sure would the upgrades affect our clients scripts. This might also cause problems with integrating maia ... ?

Which one do you suggest?