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How to Transfer Your Web Site to Another
Host Without Losing It.
Copyright 2002 Herman Drost

Best Web Hosting You want to change web hosts because you have found a less expensive solution for your web site. You are not happy with the services your host is providing. The response time for technical support is too slow. You make the decision to change web hosts.

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Top Web Hosting Now you are faced with the daunting task of switching web hosts without losing the files and beautiful design of your web site. How do you achieve this?
Here are the steps you need to take:

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Web Hosting Companies 1. Make a complete copy of your web site.
Use your favorite FTP utility (I use SmartFTP.com), to download all files to your computer from your web host. Don't assume you already have all the files on your computer - you may have added some scripts from the Net that are on your server but not on your computer.

Both online and live support resources are available. Is VPS right for me Virtual Private Servers (VPS) are the choice for advanced Web developers who require root access to the server and want to fully customize their server configuration and run their own software. VPS hosting offers larger amounts of monthly data transfer compared to shared hosting, giving users the ability to run multiple high traffic Web sites on a single server. Because VPS customers do not share software, it offers the same reliability and security as dedicated hosting at a fraction of the cost.

Web Site Design And Hosting If you are using Dreamweaver, use the GET command to copy all your files.

> Choosing a Web Hosting Plan Choosing a Web Hosting Plan Overview There are approximately 100 million Web sites on the Internet. They are "hosted" on computers (called web servers) all over the world. The web server (computer) where your Web site's information, photos, etc. reside, may be located in a home or office, but ideally, in a secure data center, and maintained by a "web host" (like WestHost). Web hosting clients simply upload their Web sites to either a shared web server (where many other clients are also hosting), or a dedicated web server (where the entire server is their own), which the web host maintains to ensure the Web site is always available, and can be accessed quickly (a fast download).

Email Web Hosting If you are using Frontpage, use the import feature to make a complete copy of the old web site.

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Web Hosting Plans 2. Choose your new Web Host.
Choose a new Web Host that meets the needs of your web site (www.isitebuild.com/webhostarticle).
If you don't know how much space you need, read the article:
"How Much Hosting Space Do You Need?"

Web And Email Hosting 3. Transfer your domain name
Contact the domain name registrar (place where you registered
your domain name) and change the Domain Name Server (DNS)
or Name Server information to your new hosts DNS information.
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Web Site Builder Your site is going to experience a downtime while your DNS
record is being changed and propagated through the world's WHOIS
servers. It will take about 24-72 hours for the process to be
completed.

Web Server Hosting Maintain any existing services set up on your old domain name
such as email forwarding, web pointing and website hosting until
the transfer is complete to ensure continuity of your service.

Web Hosting Account You can check the progress of your domain name transfer by using
a Domain Name Search facility such as Whois.net. You should see
the details change from your previous Host to your New Host when
the transfer is complete.

Web Hosting Company 4. Upload all files to your new Web Host.
When you are sure your domain name has been transferred, upload
the files to your new Web Host.

Virtual Web Hosting Dreamweaver - define your site first, and then use the PUT
command to transfer all your files and html pages. This will
ensure that your whole web will remain intact with the transfer.

Network Solutions Web Hosting FrontPage - create a new Web from the site files you have
imported from your old host, then publish them to the new host.
Make sure your new host has Front Page extensions installed.
This process will transfer your complete site to your new Host.

Cheapest Web Host 5. Transferring web pages to the New Host.
Dreamweaver or FrontPage editors make it very easy to transfer
html web pages. They keep most, if not all your web site intact
for the transfer (as explained above).

Web Hosting Domain Another way to transfer your web pages is to copy the source
code by right clicking on the page as you see it when you visit
the site and select 'view/source'. It will come up on Notepad.
Select 'file/save as' and save to a place of your choice as an
HTML file. To do this, at the bottom of the box just before you
save it, it will say '.txt'. Change the drop menu to 'all files'
and then change the '.txt' at the end of the name you're saving
it as to '.html', then save it. You will then have a complete
page ready to load to wherever you want. If you have images
though, you'll have to save them separately.

Web Server Director 6. Amending your web site.
Sometimes your web site may not look exactly the same as on
your last Web Host. This is because the html code and/or files
did not completely transfer. This may happen more often with
the editors. FrontPage will do this more because it uses FrontPage
extensions for publishing (extra files for easy publishing).

Web Hosting Service Make the necessary design changes to mirror the site you had
previously hosted. You may have to eliminate or add some code to
completely reflect your original site.

Comcast Web Hosting 7. Testing your web site.
Once the domain name and your web site files have been transferred,
you should test that all services are working on the your new Host
(i.e. email services, etc). If it's working correctly, go ahead and cancel
all your remaining services with your previous hosting service.

Web Site Developers Transferring your web site to a new Host doesn't have to be such
a nerve-racking task, once you know the exact steps to take. Now
you can enjoy the savings and services of a new home for your
web site.

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Reproduced with kind permission from Herman Drost

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