What You Should Know If You Want To Change Your Web Hosting Provider
Changing from one web host to another can become necessary if your website becomes popular and your current host can’t meet your needs for bandwidth, storage, etc. This can be especially true if your site is hosted on a free web host.
If you need to move your site, plan the move carefully. Of course, the first thing you must do is choose your new hosting company.
Once you have found a host that can meet all your needs, you need to move your site on to the new server. Before making any moves, be sure to back up your website from the old host.
If your website has grown haphazardly and is not well-structured, this is a really good opportunity to think about redesigning it. You might want to do something as simple like a new page design, or you might want to redesign your site’s database and content storage.
Use a redirect page on your old site for the first 48 hours after you move it to a new host. This automatically forwards people to your new site and makes sure that your visitors are able to see your site even if its IP address hasn’t yet propagated.
It takes about 48 hours for a new website to be listed on most of the Internet’s domain servers, but after that everything should be fine. Here are a few more suggestions to ease the transition:
1. Find out whether your new host is running on Unix or Windows and make sure it will be compatible with everything you’re moving from the old host.
2. Check to see how much storage all the files and content for your current site need. Make sure your new host gives you enough room to let your website grow.
3. Find out which services your new host offers, and make sure that all the features you have been using on your current host are available. Some examples include autoresponders and email forwarding.
4. If your current website uses Microsoft Frontpage, you want to be certain that your new host supports Frontpage extensions.
5. Check to see what your new host’s policy is for extra bandwidth, in case your site continues to get busier.
6. If your new host’s server is a shared server, make sure that no adult sites are hosted on the same server. Adult sites can get very busy and slow down all the other websites that are hosted on the same server.
7. Check some review sites and forums so that you can read some customer feedback about your new host before you sign up. This will give you a good indication of the type of service you can expect.
After you have uploaded your data to the new web host, test your site to ensure that it is working correctly. You should be able to preview your website on the new host before you complete the domain name switch to the new address.
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