There are certain key elements which should be taken in to consideration while your move your website from current web hosting services provider to another.
- Unlock you Authorization Code. (What is Authorization Code?)
- Take backup of all files, emails, databases.
- Remember all the settings you have on your old hosting account to keep them unchanged at the new web hosting services provider.
- Checkout for all operations after you uploaded it at your new web hosting account.
- Newly set up all your previous email accounts on your domain and make sure they all are sending and receiving email as usual.
- After uploading your backed up data safely and checking all the operations successfully you can update your nameserver from your domain to point to ns1, ns2, ns3 and ns4.yourdomain.com
Generally your website and your emails are expected start resolving in the next 24 hours, if it happens then you need not worry and you have successfully transferred your website successfully from your old web hosting provider to new.
When you transfer your website to a new web hosting services provider they ask you for ‘Authorization Code’. It’s a Unique 6 to 32 character lone code which is specially created to prevent any unsecured or unauthorized transfers of website. This ‘Authorization Code’ provides a security feature as it works as an unique Pin for your website (domain name) and it certifies that person who is demanding the transfer of domain is the real owner of that particular website. This code can be found in the control panel of that website. With the help of the ‘Authorization Code’ you can also lock your website and prevent any attempt of transformation without your authority. When you want to transfer it they you can unlock it.
