5 Transfer the site to another hoster
A site and its domain can be transferred to another hoster.
Up to 48 hours may be needed to perform this procedure, during which email access will be disrupted. Accordingly, doing this over a weekend may cause the least disruption.
A site may become very popular and it may begin to slow down because the hosting plan's resource limits are being pushed. That means trying to find a better plan that may be available cheaper than from the site's current hoster. When that is done, this procedure can be used to shift the site and its domain to the new hoster.
This is a complex technical process. For those who are challenged by such things, seek help from someone who is very familiar with email clients and
Note that this procedure can only be used for a single addon domain because the primary account domain can only be transferred by moving everything, including all sites and email accounts, and that is best handled by the new hosting provider's transfer team, possibly by giving them temporary access (using a temporary password) to the account at your current provider.
Shifting a single domain means that all the emails for accounts using the domain need to be moved as well. Try to delete as many unnecessary emails as possible, and put the rest into folders, before then to minimise the time taken in the transfer. A drag-and-drop email client, like Outlook, will be necessary to move folders and individual emails between the old and new systems. A temporary email account not on the domain is needed as well. If using a separate domain for the hosting account, an email account created on that domain for just this purpose will be best as it will be empty.
This procedure is best done on a computer because it involves a lot of drag-and-dropping between three email accounts and a mouse is much more accurate and reliable for doing that when the target is text rather than a large area. Since the email transfer has to be done for every account on the domain, if using a single intermediate email account, do only one account at a time to avoid confusion.
One step involves pointing the registrar's DNS servers at the new hoster. It can take up to 48 hours for the DNS servers across the internet to update themselves, so emails can arrive at either server during the transition, depending where they originate from. The emails need to be copied from the old server to the temporary account beforehand, and copied from there to the new server afterward.
Steps
△The roles to perform this procedure are:
for the target site, with all the same email accounts and forwarders, but Smallsite Design will be loaded from a full archive file at step 5 here.
by closing off any articles open for editing.
by performing:
by clicking the
by clicking the
A row will be added to the table with the archive details.
by clicking the
by performing:
by using Create links to add a link to the article as the first in each subsite's
This has another purpose, and that is that because the article is not in the navigation bars in the archive, it is easy to tell when the new site is active because there will be no article.
by performing:
by performing Delete a site, ending at step 3.
of the saved archive, by clicking the
The progress bar will change from green to red when the file is shown in the folder.
by clicking on the X in its tab or window.
by clicking on it in the
by clicking the
by clicking the
by clicking on the X in its caption bar.
The new site will not be able to modified until the DNS servers at the domain name registrar are pointed to the new site's servers at step 11.
by performing:
by clicking on it in the
by clicking the
by checking the
on the new server for each email account on the old server .
as a temporary holding account for all emails, with a folder for each email account.
for each email account and the temporary account.
by performing:
by opening it one instance of the email program.
by opening it another instance of the email program.
in the temporary holding account for the email account to be transferred, with a name matching the email account to be transferred.
by dragging and dropping the folder from current account to the temporary account's folder. The
for each of the remaining folders.
for each of the remaining accounts.
for the new server.
by visiting the domain, and if the article created at step 4 does not show in the home page's subsite navigation bar, the new site is live.
by performing:
by opening it another instance of the email program.
on the new site.
by opening it one instance of the email program.
by dragging and dropping the folder from the temporary account's folder to the new account. The
for each of the remaining folders.
as per the email client's process for that.
as per the
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