Comments on: 6 Easy Steps to Making a Web Hosting Switch

By: The Pulse of the Blogosphere

The Pulse of the Blogosphere — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:48:10 +0000

[...] Essential Keystrokes – 6 Easy Steps to Making a Web Hosting Switch [...]

By: Joseph Verzino

Joseph Verzino — Sat, 01 May 2010 09:05:17 +0000

It is a good idea to copy down the old DNS values before you change them. Then you can reset them if you have to get access to your files to copy them to your hard disk.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:22:00 +0000

I own a small firm called Altec Design. We actually just recently switched all of our sites over to new servers. The best advice I can give someone is to BACKUP YOU SITES! We have done this before and therefore backed them up this time, but as experience has taught us, there is always little "kinks" to be worked out when transfering servers.

By: This Eclectic Life » No More “Peek-A-Boo” Blog

This Eclectic Life » No More “Peek-A-Boo” Blog — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:37:54 +0000

[...] for my former host to get back on-line, I decided to make the switch. Armed with information from Essential Keystrokes, I began the process. My fears were unfounded. Changing domain name servers could not have been [...]

By: Bruno Auger

Bruno Auger — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:04:46 +0000

This article was very informtive. I thought it provided a lot of info that even the average user could even move their stuff to a new host.

By: TechnoDiary.com

TechnoDiary.com — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:55:38 +0000

Last time when I switched the host my site had to be down for like 9 hours. It was some DNS update issue with hostgator.

~Sahil

By: Cole

Cole — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:15:38 +0000

One thing I would add, especially if you work with a lot of scripts, is that you may need to change the directory root, php locations etc. So keep that in mind when switching and it’ll save some hassle.

By: Design

Design — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:10:07 +0000

This is the first time I have to change my hosting service, and this little tutorial really came in handy, thanks!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 26 May 2008 07:31:14 +0000

Even if you arent switching hosts, it is a good idea to backup your files continuously even if your host says they backup server data automatically. Sometimes these backups can fail or you might delete some files by accident(If they are using RAID backup you are out of luck)

By: hitsdir

hitsdir — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:18:28 +0000

looks easy with those 6 steps.
but its really hard when we are moving some script/database. lol