he idea of transferring customer service department?
from one host to another • Are you locked into the
can be a little current price?
intimidating. You may not be • Do they want full payment in
happy with your current host, but advance? If you are unhappy will
you do not want to interrupt your you be refunded?
website's activity. There are • Email service(s).
effective ways to transfer to
another host; you just need to Once you have found a web host
know what you should do ahead of you feel you will be happy with,
time. you need to sign-up for a new
account. Before you go any
If you are considering leaving farther with the new host, you
your current host you probably need to back up or upload all of
have issues you are not happy the files and databases from your
with. Look for a host that can current site. You can use an FTP
eliminate these issues, give your utility to download all the files
website all the features it from the current host to your
needs, and evaluate as much as computer. Dreamweaver users can
possible so you can stay with the use the "Get" command to copy all
new host for the long-term. Some of their files. Another thing you
things you may want to consider could do is to store a local copy
when choosing a host are: in your computer. Whether it is
PHP or another format you can
• The web host's terms and always up-load the info later if
conditions there was a mishap. You can save
• Do they require a long-term the HTML information by viewing
contract or can you cancel at your source page, which opens up
anytime? in Notepad. Just go to "File" and
• How accessible is the then save that page (make sure
your file names match up with the Therefore you cannot test your
current names for each web page). new email until the transfer is
Upload or Transfer Files to the completed. This may make a few
New Web Host business owners nervous, but you
can always set up an
Now you can upload all the files auto-responder on your old server
to the new server or web host. If and the new server. By doing
you saved the HTML information this, your customers will receive
from your source page you may be an email explaining the situation
able to just enter the during and after the transfer.
information and be done. You need Another idea is to start the
to test the site to make sure the transfer process on a Friday, a
new IP address is working and weekend, or over a holiday if
make possible adjustments to possible. Choose a time when the
coding (depending on the server traffic on your site will be
situation). Although it may be a slow.
tedious job, you need to check Domain Name Server (DNS) Transfer
every page, every link, every
image, and the formatting on your Next, you need to transfer your
website. domain name. You can contact the
Your New Email Server domain name registrar, which is
where you registered the domain
You will need to re-create all name. You need to change the
email accounts you currently have Domain Name Server (DNS) to your
in use. You can create new web host's DNS information.
-auto-responders and aliases When you set up your new server
and/or forward emails at the same first and then update your DNS
time. Your new email address(es) second, you will experience zero
will not work until the transfer downtime. The idea is to move
of your domain is completed. from your old server to the new
server that is already set up and account open for at least a
functioning which allows your couple of weeks and if possible
site to appear as if it never an entire month. This will help
moved at all. you make sure you are receiving
all your emails that may be
Transferring the DNS is a switched around during the
critical part of transferring to transfer and it will be a backup
another web host. If you move if there are problems with the
your site your website's IP DNS servers. Once things are
address changes. The DNS servers working smoothly and reliably you
route traffic to your site with can cancel the old web host.
the website's current IP address,
not the domain name. If you Some domain registrars will
transfer to another web host confirm a web hosting change by
without changing the DNS sending an email to the address
information people will not be you used when your registered the
able to find your website. The domain name. This email will
new web host's DNS information require a reply and the transfer
will let all of the DNS servers will not take place if you do not
know your website's new IP reply. This email is for your
address and customers will then website's security; the registrar
be able to find your site. This needs to make sure that it is
process will take 24-72 hours to really "you" asking for the
complete. transfer and not someone trying
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