How to Transfer Your Web Site to Another Host Without Losing It

For one reason or another, you have to transfer your web site to another host, sometimes under the influence of a less expensive solution for your web site. You may not be happy with the services of your current host. Now if you have decided to switch your host, then you will surely be worried that how you will be able to transfer your website to the new host without losing your data. You should follow these steps to secure your data.

Copy Your Web Site

You must download all the files of your web site and you can use FTP for this purpose. Although you may have files on your computer while developing this site but you have done few changes in your site at different times and these changes will be on your server not on the computer. Use the GET command for the Dreamweaver and some important features for the Frontpage to copy all the data on your site.

New Web Host

After copying your data, choose your new web host who can meet all the needs of your website. You should also have good idea about the required space for your site.

Domain Name transfer

Now you will have to contact your domain registrar to change the Domain Name Server. When you will change your DNS, it will start to download your site. This process can take 24 to 72 hours to complete. Keep your services of email forwarding, web pointing and website hosting on your old domain until the complete transfer of your website on new server has been underway. You can find the progress of domain transfer with Domain Name Search facility.

Upload your all Files

Upload your files to the new web host after making sure that all the files have been transferred. Define your site and give PUT command for the file transfer in case of Dreamweaver and create a new web to publish your data if you are having Frontpage. In this way you will transfer all your data on new host.

Web Pages on New Host

You can also transfer your data by copying the source code. You can do it by right clicking on the page. You can save this code from File menu of your window as an HTML file. It will be very easy to transfer html pages for the Dreamweaver or Frontpage editors.

Testing Web Site

Testing is very important after transferring your files on the domain name. It will confirm your new web host. Transferring your data on the new host is not a hectic task. If you know the exact steps of data transferring then your data will not lost.