There are different reasons that make you determine to move your website. You may simply find a much cheaper solution for your website. Or, you are not satisfied with your current web host for different reasons, or your website grow to such an extent that your current provider cannot meets your need anymore. Whatever the reason is, you need to switch your hosting provider. Following are some steps involved in transferring your web site.<\/p>\n
1. Backup your website files
\nYour precious website is composed of different files. You need to make sure you have backed up all these files before any other actions. Simply with your FTP account, you will be allowed to copy the files from your old host to a safe place on your local PC. Note: If your website is consist of dynamic content then you are required to backup your database as well. It is very easy to accomplish this, first login into the Cpanel\uff0cthen, in the backups option select \u201cDownload a MySQL Database Backup\u201d.<\/p>\n
2. Change your domain name server
\nAfter you have purchase a new server for your website, you will be provided with the numeric URL for the primary name and secondary name serve in the form of ns1.nameserver.net and dns1.nameserver.net. Then, you will need to contact your domain register agency to change the DNS information to your new hosts DNS information. This is called DNS Propagation and it takes 24 to 72 hours. You can check the result by any domain name search facility such as whois.net.<\/p>\n
3. Upload all files to your new web server
\nAfter you have confirmed that your domain name has been transferred, it is time to upload all your website files to your new server. You are required to make some change and update some setting to your websites. For instance, inactive password protection, check CGI\/PHP versions, etc. Keep in mind that you will need to set up the related service, such as email accounts as well.<\/p>\n
4. Test your website on the new server
\nYou need to check whether all function well on the new server, if all goes well then you can cancel your old hosting account.<\/p>\n
5. Some tips for you.
\nFor majority of online business owners consider transferring as a nerve-racking task, I would be very glad to address some tips here for\u00a0you\u00a0to follow.<\/p>\n
a)If you are running a forum or any other kind of dynamic element on your website, it is strongly recommended that you close your old site completely during the DNS propagation process or else it will be hard for you to back up your website.<\/p>\n
b)Choose a low-traffic period to make the move. You can judge by your website statistics to figure out the lowest traffic 48 hours to start the transferring.<\/p>\n
c)Make a notice to your website audience and the hosting provider as well about the transferring.<\/p>\n
d)Do not cancel your old web hosting account for at least another week or two to ensure that all things are running properly.<\/p>\n
Finally, hope you can enjoy your new home for your website. If you are shopping for new server for your website, go for hostease<\/a>. They are providing solid and affordable web hosting solution with user-friendly control panel and various ecommerce carts integrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are different reasons that make you determine to move your website. You may simply find a much cheaper solution for your website. Or, you are not satisfied with your current web host for different reasons, or your website grow to such an extent that your current provider cannot meets your need anymore. Whatever the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,44],"tags":[129,128],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-server","category-website","tag-transfer","tag-web-site"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}