How To Switch Web Hosts Without Having Any Down Time

Switching to a new host can be a very smooth process or it can be very complicated. Following our steps will ensure that your move is a painless one.

If you need help switching hosts or simply are not capable of doing this yourself we offer a free service in which we will do this for you. Simply contact us for more information if you need help switching your web hosting to Mega Hosters.

1. Sign Up For Hosting With Us

The first step is to find the new host you want to be with and sign up for one of their web hosting plan. Make sure not to cancel with your old hosting provider, and do not tell them you will be canceling. For the time being you switching host needs to be kept a secret from them, or they could terminate your site early and cause downtime.

2. Copy Your Website To Our Servers

At this point you should have hosting accounts with two hosting providers the old provider and us. You will now upload your entire site from the old host to our servers. This can be done by connecting to their ftp and downloading all your files. Then connecting to our ftp and uploading all your files. We offer this service to new customers for free so please do take advantage of it. Simply contact us and tell us you need your site transferred from your old host to us. You will need to supply us with your FTP login information to your old host for us to be able to download your website from their servers.

3. Viewing Your Site On Our Server Pre DNS Transfer

Unlike most hosts we offer you the ability to view your website on our servers before changing your DNS settings on your domain name. This will allow you to see that your site is functioning correctly on our servers before making the final transfer. In your welcome email you received from us you were given a temporary Instant Domain Alias, if you access this unique web address your website on our server will come up in your web browser.

4. Switching Your Domain Name DNS

After you have all your files on both hosting accounts you will change your domain names dns. We provided you our domain name servers (dns) in the welcome email you received when your web hosting account was activated.

Our domain name servers are as follows:
NS1.MEGAHOSTERS.COM
NS2.MEGAHOSTERS.COM
NS3.MEGAHOSTERS.COM (optional)

Go to wherever you purchased your domain name from to make the changes. If you have any questions we would be more then happy to help you, or even make the dns changes for you. You will need to provide us your login information for the website where you registered your domain name for us to make the changes for you.

5. The Waiting Game Begins

Once your dns changes have been made you will need to wait two days before your site will load off our servers. During this two day period your dns is prorogating world wide, and your site will be bouncing from the old host to the new host every other minute randomly. Once the two days is up your site will only be loading off our servers.

6. Canceling Your Old Hosting

48 hours should have passed now since you have updated your dns. If it has you will now contact the host you were moving from and cancel your account with them. Be sure to follow up with them to make sure they stopped recurring billing on your credit card and you are not still being billed by them.

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