Steps to Move your Website from one server to another

You have a website hosted on the server but you are not happy with the services your web hosting delhi company is providing. The response time for technical support is too slow and very lately they dissolve your problem. Your old web hosting service provider has very less talented technical staff and their web server is always down, or may be your old web hosting provider cannot meet your hosting needs anymore or you could have discovered a cheaper web hosting service…and etc.

So at last you decided to change your web hosts as you are getting less expensive solution for your website and without losing the files and beautiful design of your web site. The main how you can achieve this:

Here are the steps you need to take:

1. Transfer Schedule

Preferably you must plan your


to switch the we host company prior to one month before you getting out of your web hosting delhiplan to get too sufficient time to perform a smooth transfer. Performing the transfer in less than one month time frame will put your website in menace of inaccessible.

2. Make a complete copy of your web site:

Before moving a new web host you must take back of all your web files from the old server. In is quite often that you have already all the files of your website with you on your local PC. But for having not a single mistakes to be occurred you must have downloaded all the files at last time. You must not to forget to take the back files along the script files, database files, and even server logs if it is necessary. Use your favorite FTP utility, to download all files to your computer from your web host. You should make a directory structure which must be similar to the directory structure on your web server and start downloading the files into the respective directory.

If you are using Dream weaver, use the GET command to copy all your files.

If you are using FrontPage, use the import feature to make a complete copy of the old web site.

3. Choose your new Web Host.

Select and discuss all matters and plan with your new web hosting service after deciding once you have decided the termination date mentioned above. Generally your new web hosting account will be set up within 24 hours.

4. Transfer your domain name

Ask your domain name registrar to change the Domain Name Server (DNS) to your new hosts DNS information.

You must not get shocked as while your DNS record is being changed and propagated through the world's WHOIS servers, your website will face a downtime. Try to continue all the existing services provided by your website till your website not get transferred completely. You can also check all the functionality are properly functioning on the new hosting server before depending on the new web host services to transfer and terminating the website totally from the old web host.

If you want to check the progress of your domain name transfer then you can check it by using a Domain Name Search facility like Whois.net. You will able view all the details web hosting delhi changes taken place from your previous Host to your New Host when the transfer is complete.

4. Upload all files to your new Web Host.

When your domain name transfer is completed, upload the files to your new Web Host. In the dream weaver, first of all define your website name first; apply the PUT command to transfer all your files and html pages. This will ensure that your whole web will remain intact with the transfer. In the FrontPage make a new Web from the website files from where imported your old host, and publish them to the new host.

5. Amending your web site

Generally the look and feel of the website doesn’t change on the new web host but if sometimes your website may not look exactly the same as on your last Web Host. This happens due to the html code not exactly match the new editors of new web host. FrontPage will do this web hosting delhi because it uses FrontPage extensions for publishing. So you should check all and make the design changes what ever is needed to the site on the site where you previously hosted.

6. Testing

You can test your website by the temporary URL directory online. You must verify all the script and test all the hyperlinks in the normal pages if possible try to solve all the broken links.

At the time of testing with the temporary URL directory, your website hosted on the old web host continues operating.