Changing Web Hosting Services

Tiffany Ogren – Raleigh, NC
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company

Changing Web Hosting Services

Sometimes web designers will make mistakes in choosing web hosting that does not become apparent until later in the game. Issues with web hosting servers that could make you want to change hosts include speed restrictions, location of the server, poor customer service and high cost. Other reasons to change include expansion of your website that your current server cannot accommodate for, or bandwidth they can’t provide.

It’s essential to weigh up the risks involved in changing website hosts before diving in and moving your virtual home elsewhere.

The risks you face when moving a website’s home include technical hiccups that cause downtime, loss of content, or even your website disappearing all together. While these risks are small, it’s important to create a detailed plan and understand the possible outcomes.

Create a list of all files on your server and back them up! If you have a brainy tech department at your disposal, ask them to do a practice run of the moving process onto a separate, local server. Identify any problems that come up and fix them before the real move happens.

Ensure that you have paid for hosting with your current provider that overlaps your new hosting dates. This way, you’ll have a fallback in case there are any errors in setting up your account with your new hosting provider. However, it’s important to accept that downtime may be unavoidable and warn your website users of this risk well ahead of time, telling them the estimated time and duration of downtime.

If you have a database, all sorts of complications can occur during the moving process. While transferring the files themselves is fairly pain-free, there may be system-specific info that needs to be altered to work on the new server – ask your web designers to adjust these before you move the files, and run plenty of tests once your site is on the other side.

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