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How
To Transfer a Website
To A New Web Hosting Provider
There are lessons that can be learned from
not backing up information, or as in real life not having receipts,
or hard copies of all legal and school information. It makes
you wonder how many potential authors have given up on writing
because they lost a two hundred-page book. If you are experienced
enough, or have learned a rough lesson from life about backing
up information, you might want to change web hosts when you
have a full-fledged website. Don’t be confused, moving an entire
website can be done, but you had better be very careful when
doing it, that means backing up religiously ever changed you’ve
made to your website, and knowing what you’re doing. Read on
to learn about some techniques that will help you when moving
your website to a new hosting service company.
Moving
a website is certainly not the same things as moving a parked
domain name from one web hosting service to another.
Read below about some tricks and techniques that you
can employ when moving your site to another host.
Back
Up Everything. If you listened to your mother when you
were young, you are in the habit of backing up everything,
from school thesis to a copy of your driver’s license. Unfortunately,
most of us still have that lesson to learn, and some of us
never learn it. If you care about your website then you’ll
make It would be a good idea to make a backup on a CD and copy
twice your latest files to your hard drive. Make sure that
your anti virus software is up to date, so you’ll not be crying
if your system becomes infected with a virus, and worse yet
– crashes. The reasons for continuous back up is you need to
be prepared for human error too when you’re moving information,
over writing of files can destroy all of the hard work you’ve
put in to making your website work.
Check
the Control Panel. Hopefully, before you do anything
you’ll know what control panel you’re using at your new host
website. Different hosting companies use different control
panels, and you’ll need to learn which one you’re dealing with.
Keep physical notes too when on the directory information of
the files because the structures could be wildly different.
Also, know what type of transfer type you’re dealing with whether
it’s an ASC or binary type computer formatting language.
Data
from Server Logs. If you have an e-commerce site please
don’t forget to make copies and backup all information, you
don’t want to loose thousands of customers from data loss.
Most web masters have server logs to analyze data on whom is
visiting their site, and how they’re visiting it. Always have
a good log analyzer and download your log statistics, so you
can reexamine your information at a more convenient time for
you.
Obtain
Host Servers DNS
Obtain
your Temporary URL. Don’t make a DNS change until you
have completely checked your site out for bugs.
Download
or Buy an FTP Script. Linux is usually free and Windows
does require a fee for the right to use their product to use
in conjunction with your web server file logs to change and
to download or upload file information. Remember, back up of
everything is important, so backing up your root folder and
sub folders is paramount.
Obtain
Script Programs. It might be necessary to reinstall
any script programs on your new web hosting site. You want
to be able to access your email and forms for your new hosting
service.
Inform
your old host about the change.
Finally, it would be a great idea to send out an email
informing your customers of the host service change. Keep them updated
and informed, and let them know to inform you if they go to
your website and certain parts of it are not working properly.
Happy customers that will return are your goal for you and
your website.
Also, if you feel that moving it all on one day is too much,
schedule it for a time that you can devote your full attention
to your move. Moving your total site on a day during the holidays
or when you’re especially busy, is not a wise move for you
to do. You can move it in pieces, and check on it to ensure
that all is working properly. Once you’re sure that al is functioning
properly, release the old account by informing your old hosting
provider. Give this plenty of time, a month would not be unreasonable
to ensure that all email functions and other vital functions
are working properly, such as your shopping cart and other
types of form scripts.
Have fun with your new web hosting server and the potential
it can bring.
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