Whatever the reasons for the decision to change hosting, whether poor technical support or permanent downtime, you can formulate a set of rules that will help to do so with minimal losses.
- Start is a small - just compile a list: what to do, in what order, as it should not be forgotten.
- Make a back-up of your site. Save all - all pages, images, files, databases, scripts, links, etc. Unless the site is not monstrous size, it does not take away a lot of time, but save a lot of nerves when why any access to the site on the old host will not be possible.
- Find a new host. This can not devote a single article. Main - look and compare as closely as possible.
- Finished with the preceding paragraph, upload your site and everything that has to it. You will get a new IP-address. It takes time for debugging and testing site for individual IP, yet you have not yet re your domain name.
- Once the site is fully-established, and you saw its functionality, it's time to contact the domain name registrars and transfer the name to a new host.
- Wait until the end of reordering of names. While movement DNS, both the host - old and new - update information on the site, and details about the new DNS distributed over the network. This usually takes 1-2 weeks, and during this period, do not delete the site from your old host.
- Once again test the site - all the links, postal addresses, databases, files, etc.
- And now - and not a step before (!) - It is time to remove the old account. The premature removal could go sideways and lead to confusion of domain names.
- It may be worth require from the old host some relief. Obviously, you remain dissatisfied with something, once decided to change it. Here, all means are good, but may prove particularly useful to search for evidence of bad service at the site, monitoring web hosting providers.
Most likely, this list could be supplemented, but in a way he can help significantly lower costs (both tangible and psychological) of the transition to a new host.
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