July 9, 2011     (Updated from our Oct. 8, 2004 article)

For some reason, you aren’t happy anymore with your current Web hosting provider. Possible reasons might be there’s too much downtime, their servers are overloaded and too slow, or maybe you found a better deal with even more features and more Internet bandwidth elsewhere. Whatever the reasons, moving your Web site from one server to another IS a very simple and easy process, provided you keep a few important things in mind. If you follow the step-by-step instructions in this article, I assure you all will go smoothly.

The number one concern: search engines
If you're like me, you certainly don’t want the little search robots coming to your site when it happens to be down. One way of preventing that is there shouldn't even be ANY downtime, provided you do everything right. When transferring from one hosting provider to another, prevention should be your most important consideration.

The best way to prevent your site from being down at all is to first look for a new Web hosting provider BEFORE you even think of cancelling the old one! Once you have made your choice, contact them and have an account opened with them. Then make sure you transfer all your files to their servers. Once that has been done and you are certain all is well, only then is it safe to proceed to the next step.

Just make sure your old hosting provider dosen't close your account right away, since that would cause your site to be unavailable, and you could lose some valuable traffic, along with some very important emails...

Next step: your domain registrar
Once you’ve done that, you then need to contact your domain name registrar, and you will need to make the required DNS changes. The Internet runs on name servers.

Next: Name servers & domain name registrars >>>

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