Hi!!

Please help..
Does anybody knows how to move a site to a different host, how to do this?

Thanks in advance..:)

Well you can download all of your files via FTP onto your computer, then re-upload them to the new host. The only disadvantage with this is if you have a big site it will take a long time.

Also, put a URL redirect script on your old site so as not to lose traffic etc.

Often, hosts are willing to assist with this if you are unsure what to do. If it's planned correctly then there can be very little (if any) downtime.

Do you know if your site is hosted on a cPanel server? Do you type your domain and then follow it with a /cpanel to login to your control panel?

If so, it is extremely easy for a host who also uses cPanel to transfer your site for you.

I may not come back to this post, but if you have any other questions feel free to message me.

If you have ssh option you can use wget options search for wget in Google for more info

there are generally 3 things that will make this up

1DNS-tells what ip (computer number) your websites hosted on in the internet
2SQL-do you use an databases, can they be temporarily opened up while DNS changes hands so that the old server can connect to the new
3Your Website Data-have all HTML duplicated as well on new host

If you are moving from a Cpanel Host to another Cpanel host, ask the new hosting company to do it for you. Then ask the old hosting company to change your DNS setting to the new hosted IP when your ready to make the switch.

if your moving it manually, if you have databases, I would move the databses first, give access to those databases to your old server ip. Test that they work, and transfer the files over.

JustMeDr