Switching to a new web host
Written on April 27, 2010 by
There may well come a time when as a webmaster you find that your current website hosting service provider just is not meeting your needs. Maybe they have failed to provide the standard of customer service you expect, simply don’t offer enough bandwidth or storage for your site, or maybe they just aren’t offering the most competitive price for hosting. Whatever the reason for wanting to change your web hosting company, you may be nervous about how difficult switching from one provider to another may be. Don’t let that keep you with an unsatisfactory web host. Here are a few hints to help make this transition as smooth as it can be.
The biggest thing you can do to make this switch as hassle free as possible for both you and for the visitors to your website is to leave your account with your existing provider open. This allows people hunting for your page to always find your site, with no real down time during the transition. As you are evaluating different web hosts, make sure that you know that your new web hosting service and web hosting service package combination that you select will provide you with a minimum of the same level of features and services that your old company provided. After carefully choosing a new web hosting service, but while your current account remains active, you will need to establish a new account with your new business website hosting provider.
After choosing your package and creating the new account, you will need to download all of the data files that are associated with your website from the old web hosting service’s server, and upload the data to the server belonging to your new domain web hosting service provider. This can be a simple task, despite sounding complicated.
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