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What Not to Forget When Moving Webhosts

Here's a handy checklist for you to keep by your computer when moving web hosts so the move will go without a hitch Web hosting doesn't last forever. Maybe you have a host you've been with for years and years but it's just time to move because you've outgrown them and the initial plans you had for your business when you started with them. Hosts that you've never had a problem with before can sometimes run into problems that are beyond their control but cause their customer service to slip and not ... read more

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Here's a handy checklist for you to keep by your computer when 
 
moving web hosts so the move will go without a hitch

Web hosting doesn't last forever. Maybe you have a host you've 
 
been with for years and years but it's just time to move because 
 
you've outgrown them and the initial plans you had for your 
 
business when you started with them. Hosts that you've never 
 
had a problem with before can sometimes run into problems that 
 
are beyond their control but cause their customer service to slip 
 
and not be as good as it was before. No matter your reason for 
 
leaving your current host, you should consider these things to do 
 
as they could easily be overlooked.

Backups
 
You can never have too many backups. First thing you do before 
 
anything else is to create a full backup of your website. This can be 
 
easily done using your web host's control panel.

Emails
 
Make sure your email accounts are created over at the new host 
 
before you change the name servers. Don't forget email forwards. 
 
In the busyness of moving files and getting the website working, 
 
things like email accounts and forwarding tend to be forgotten 
 
especially if they are accounts you don't use often.

Service Overlap
 
Don't wait till the last minute to move. Make sure there is some 
 
overlap in service between the old and new hosting account, 
 
preferably a week or more. Sometimes an ISP hasn't updated or 
 
refreshed yet and will continue sending traffic and email to your old 
 
site. You want to be able to log in to the old host to check for 
 
those straggler emails.

Databases
 
This is rather unlikely especially when your website is powered by 
 
a database. The more likely scenario would be you didn't upgrade 
 
the script to reflect the changes. If you don't feel right about 
 
moving databases then you should get someone else to do it for 
 
you but it really isn't that hard if you are ok with it.

Page Redirects
 
Make sure your htaccess and cPanel redirects are re-setup 
 
properly. Often, people overlook the htaccess altogether because 
 
it may have been hidden from them or the new web host already 
 
has an htaccess file created. But just by having an htaccess file 
 
doesn't mean your redirects will work automatically because 
 
chances are, the one at the new web host is just an empty file. If 
 
you have any 301 redirects, you need to open up the htaccess file 
 
from your old web host, copy and paste it to the new web host.

Paths
 
Different web hosts have different server setups. If you're moving 
 
a cPanel web host to another cPanel web host, this isn't usually an 
 
issue. If you are moving from one hosting system to another or 
 
control panel to another then you will have much more work to do 
 
in this case. If you're running scripts, check to make sure your 
 
scripts are referencing the correct paths. If you're changing the 
 
domain of your website as well, check your images and links too.

Files Outside Your Public_html Folder
 
You can easily forget these files because they are not available 
 
publicly. Maybe you've stored some backups, drafts or anything 
 
else you wanted to have saved for later so be sure to check here.

Forms
 
Seems obvious and easy to spot but not all scripts are in the 
 
forefront and forms are one of those. Maybe you haven't installed 
 
the form script on the new server or they have a different form 
 
mailer. Check that all your forms are working especially the contact 
 
forms.

As your site gets bigger, it will become more and more likely that 
 
you'll miss things in the move. Get a screen shot of the file 
 
manager in your control panel to see if you're missing anything and 
 
take an inventory of all the scripts that are running on your site. 
 
It's a good rule to keep this inventory up to date so that you won't 
 
have to scramble next time you need this information. Good luck.

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