Consider our services when you want to change your web hosting service provider
Added: (Fri Aug 30 2019)
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Companies and individuals have several reasons why they choose to consider moving over to a different provider of their shared web hosting services. It might be as a result of insufficient bandwidth or storage space, or it might be as a result of the customer support, or no customer support at all. No matter what the reasons might be, it still looks like a daunting task when it comes to changing to a new VPS server hosting company. However, it really does not have to be so complicated. Below are a couple of things to bear in mind whenever you want to change over from your former shared website hosting provider to a different VPS hosting provider like ours.
Firstly, you should still maintain your account with your existing web hosting provider. Experts in shared web hosting always recommend that until you have completed the transition steps you should still maintain your existing shared website hosting account with your previous provider. The transition steps would involve several processes like DNS modification and propagation, email creation and setup, file transfer, and new account setup. If you still keep your former account open at your previous provider of VPS hosting services you would be able to make sure that your domain email accounts and the website would be active and operational in the period of the transition.
Secondly, you should select a new web hosting provider that is suitable. This might sound difficult but it would really not be when you bear the following considerations in mind.
a) The operating system (Linux vs. Windows). This would depend on your website and the technologies needed to power it. For instance, if MSACCESS, MSSQL, ASP or other technologies that are Microsoft-specific is required for your website then you would need to search for a web hosting or VPS server hosting plan that runs on a Windows-platform.
b) Requirements for disk space and bandwidth.
Thirdly, when you are considering changing over to us for your VPS hosting services you should download old account files. This is required to make a backup copy of your existing website. The ideal thing to do is to download all files using a similar tree structure that would be used to make the upload afterward. In addition, search for any ch mod or file permissions that you could set on any files or folders. This task is fairly easy and can be accomplished easily by using FTP.
You should be aware that FTP access is not provided by a couple of providers of free web hosting. If you are making use of a free drag-and-drop/Flash website creation service like WIX.com or weebly.com you would discover that this is actually true.
If this is your situation, you would have to re-create your new web files because you will not be able to download your existing web files from your previous provider. This is why we usually advise our would-be clients to check if a free website creator is offered by their new VPS server hosting provider.
We also advise that you ensure that your new VPS hosting provider offers FTP access so that you would avoid running into the same problem in the future.
Other steps would involve setting up the same (or new) email addresses, propagation and changing the DNS, and then having your old account canceled. When you obtain a VPS hosting, shared web hosting, or any of our premium web hosting packages we would assist and guide you through all the considerations listed.