Changing Website/Email host

FabienO

FabienO

FabienO

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Hello all,

Though I know a decent amount about building sites, i'm very inexperienced in regards to hosting. My fiancée's company is looking to change web host to a more secure and stable host.

Currently their hosting needs are just a simple site and then pop 3 email. While they have a host in mind, they're unsure about whether to hire someone to move the site across or just wing it (By they, I mean probably me).

Perhaps one of you guys could quickly run me through the process of moving a domain name to a new host as well as emails. How the emails would have to be re-setup to work in outlook etc? Thoughts/Opinions?

I've moved domain names before (On GoDaddy.com), simply changing the name server address. That's as far as I go though.
 
FabienO said:
Hello all,

Though I know a decent amount about building sites, i'm very inexperienced in regards to hosting. My fiancée's company is looking to change web host to a more secure and stable host.

Currently their hosting needs are just a simple site and then pop 3 email. While they have a host in mind, they're unsure about whether to hire someone to move the site across or just wing it (By they, I mean probably me).

Perhaps one of you guys could quickly run me through the process of moving a domain name to a new host as well as emails. How the emails would have to be re-setup to work in outlook etc? Thoughts/Opinions?

I've moved domain names before (On GoDaddy.com), simply changing the name server address. That's as far as I go though.
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Most good hosts will do the moving for your fiancee. I run a hosting company and we do this all the time for our new clients at no extra charge. It may be worth asking your prospective new host if they do this.
 
If you transfer between hosts who use the same control panel, the process is usually even more straightforward too - for example cPanel has a great backup tool which takes care of the transfer of all your file, email and database data.

Most hosts will have the backup option available in cPanel or be able to assist if required :)
 
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