For many reasons you may need to move your hosting account with some good and reliable webhost. Your current host may not provide you all services you are looking for or their web servers are frequently getting down affecting your web presence.
Once you decide to move your hosting account and have got more reliable host then before proceeding with your new host just do your homework so that you will not face any downtime or data loss.
First of all decide when you would like to transfer all your data with new webhost accordingly signup for new hosting package get all login details. Before this take backup of all files/data which is running with your current host. You can keep this backup copy onto your local machine. You should create a directory system that is corresponding to the directory construction on your web server and download the files into the several directories. this will help you while you upload all your data onto new server with your new host.
You will get all login details such as control panel details, FTP details etc. with your new host. usign these details just login into your control panel and upload all data/files using FTP. You should start by oldest created the directory structures on the web server, and then upload all the files to the respective directory.
Once you complete your uploading of data/files, databases you can use temporary URL to cross check everything works fine. Your host will provide you temporary URL for your accountso that you can check if every thing is perfect. temporary URL may look like this http://serverIP/~your-accountname.
Once your site is working fine with temporary URL it’s time to contact your domain registrar to change old DNS to new one which you will get in your welcome email. Once your registrar updates new nameserves you will need to wait 24-72 hr to get the new DNS to propagate worldwide and will reflect accordingly in whois info. After new DNS gets updated worldwide you can see the change in whois records for your domain.
Lastly check again if your site is working fine with updated DNS, if every thing is working fine you can forward request for cancellation of your hosting account with your old host.
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This post was written by on August 4, 2008
