How to transfer your site without having downtime - FTP/cPanel Focused

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Switch your web hosting without having your web site go down

1. Sign up for any web hosting package before cancelling your old web hosting account.

2. Download your entire old web site using a FTP program, or using cPanel backup utility. Then upload your entire web site to your new web hosting account by FTP or using cPanel backup utility again. If you are using FTP, you will need to re-chmod your folders if you are running scripts.

3. After you have moved all your files to your new account, you need to change your domain name's name servers. Make sure everything is working by using a temporary address at your new hopefully great web host before you update your nameservers. Then go to where you registered your domain name or email them directly. Update your name servers to the NEW name servers your new host emailed you when you signed up.

4. After 24-72 hours your domain will be fully propegated and pointing to your new web hosting home.

5. You can now cancel your old web hosting and your web site should be fully up and running on your new account.

And that's it, after those 5 steps, your site is fully up and running with no downtime experienced at all. In all cases it's great to backup, cPanel has a great tool to allow it.


Thanks Everyone!!

[liebe911]

Thanks for this information , when ever we transfer our site we should always use it this way because if they know that we are about to leave the old host they would do something which prevents us from moving our own site. so after you do this only , inform your old host that you are moving. I have done exactly like this before i moved my site to the new host

[Terracotta]

Very informative tips, by going through all the above steps we will probably have no downtimes and our site will be transferred safely and without any hassle

[Jennifer84]

Thanks for sharing those tips it is really helpful. It is very important that the site won't go down. Again thanks for it.