Some Tips How to Move your site to another Hosting Company without problems

By: Bedrich Omacka, 2008-01-27

If you signed up for a wrong hosting service when you intended to promote your business with the help of a site and now problems occurred you have to change the service. The usual reason why online marketers change their hosting service is because their web needs expansion. In these conditions, if the hosting service does not provide a high level of technical support and does not have enough diskspace and bandwidth then you should to move to a new hosting service.

There are some information you may to know when moving your website to a new hosting service so that the change would be done without problems.The first thing that must be done when you are going to change your hosting service is to make copies for everything concerning your website and to check whether the archives to the content on your website are well done. Archiving you website’s content is not a task that should be completed only when you move to a new hosting service. This must be done every once in a while because that way you will avoid losing the information in case problems like hardware failure occur. This is a easy solution to maintain the integrity of your website and will make it very easy for you to change your actual hosting service.After these steps are done you can start searching for a new hosting service. The most important thing when you do that is to make sure that the new company can provide you services that are at least as good as the ones provided by the old hosting service. You do not want to move to a service that offers you less than what you already have. Then, find something to suit your new needs that the old hosting service could not anymore. You can use different search utilities to see whether a web service can offer you the support that you need and if it can fulfill your new requirements.After you choose a new hosting service you have to upload the files that was mentioned above. When all the files are transferred to the new service they will provide you a new IP address and then you have to transfer you domain name to the new hosting service. This transfer requires a period of time between 1-2 days. This is why you should still keep your old site in this period. In all this time you have to do different experiments to make sure that the site works properly. This means that you must keep both your old service and the new web hosting for a while.The moment when you cancel your old provider should be the time when you stop receiving e-mails on the old account. Until that moment you have to verify all the e-mails that come to both your old and your new account. As you can see, moving to a new hosting service does not imply too many troubles if you consider each step. If you wait and see how your new site is during the transfer and perform some tests you will move it to a new hosting service without any problems.

As far as you want to have your web online as soon as possible choose a web host providing clients with instant hosting account activation.