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No Worries as You Change Web Hosts

Published Saturday, August 2, 2008 by bloggerblognet26206 | E-mail this post

There are some instances when we feel that we are just not getting what we need from the web host that we have. You might have a website that is expanding a bit too quickly, making your current web host provider not able to cope up with the expansion. You might have had a bad experience with the customer support of the company or you just found a better deal with another company. Whatever your reason is, we may find ourselves wanting to switch to another web host. However, when we think about it, we might feel that it would be a pretty cumbersome task. With these simple and easy tips, you would surely be able to change from one host to another effortlessly.

The first thing to do would be to backup everything that you have on your website. Whether you are changing hosts or not, this is very important to do. So that in any unfortunate event, you would be sure that everything you have is backed up in a safe place.

You could then look for your new web host provider that would meet all the requirements that you have for your website. Make sure the one you would be dealing with would be a very reliable company.

After signing up for a new web hosting package, and before uploading everything, make sure that you have the IP number, FTP, as well as your FrontPage login and password that you received from your new host. You could then upload all your files.

Before you go through the process of the transfer of DNS servers, you would have to debug and test the new website first from an individual IP. Make sure that all the web pages are working fine and that there are no broken links and that all scripts are properly running. Also make sure that there are a least three to four weeks before your domain name expires. Do not move very near the expiration date as this could cause loads of problems.

As you transfer your DNS servers, identify the registrar through a WHOis lookup, verify the registration of the domain name, identify the information of the name server of your new host and then make changes on the DNS information. During this transition period of the DNS, the information would still have to be propagated all over the world's DNS servers. During this period, make sure that you would still have your old site running so visitors that have ISPs which have not updated would still be able to visit your website.

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