How to Move Your Website to a New Host
To put a website online, it requires a domain registrar and a Web host. In many cases, the domain registrar also acts as the Web host. The registrar keeps the domain name registered on the global Internet and directs it to your Web host. You can move your website from one Web host to another by changing the DNS information kept on record with your domain registrar from the old Web host to the new one.
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Instructions
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Review the documentation provided with your new hosting account to find the DNS server information.
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Visit your domain registrar's website and login to your account.
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Change the existing DNS server IP addresses for your domain name to the IP addresses found in Step one.
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Connect to your new Web host with an FTP client and upload the files for your website. The changes take place immediately and your website has been moved to the new host.
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Tips & Warnings
This article applies to websites consisting only of files, such as HTML documents. Websites that use databases, such as MySQL, are much more complex to move to a new host and are outside the scope of this article.
