subject: More About Transferring Your Web Hosting Services To A New Web Host [print this page] Once you are ready to go for a new web host, you need to first of all schedule your transfer. It is most important that you take the back up of your files and transfer your files to your new web host. When you are done with these steps, you can move on to the next. Now, you can install other script or database files if you need to employ them in your website. It will also be a great time for you to create email accounts necessary from your admin panel. You can now test your site using the temporary URL which will be sent with your notification email from your current provider. The format of the URL can be as follows: http://viola.lunarpages.com/~your-webaccountname
Testing Your Site
You can now test your site on the web using your temporary URL. You will need to validate if all your scripts are working and no bugs are in your website; this is due to the known fact that various web hosting servers require dissimilar server environment for them to be executed.
To ensure the inexistence of broken links, you will need to test all the hyperlinks in your web pages. While you have begun testing using your temporary URL directory, your website will continue its operation with your old web hosting service provider.
Domain Name Transfer
If you have already tested tour website on your temporary URL and it seems that it works perfectly well, the next thing for you to do is to get in touch with your present domain name registrar (this is the company where you have signed up for your domain name). You can now modify your Domain Name Server or DNS which will direct you to the new DNS of the new web hosting service you have signed up for. Commonly, after signing up with the new web hosting service successfully, you will be receiving your DNS information shortly after through a notification email. You can also view your DNS data from your hosting providers website. DNS typically follows this format: NS1.YOURNEWWEBHOSTING.COM, NS2.YOURNEWWEBHOSTING.COM.
There are domain name registrars which obliges you to acquire DNS IP addresses. This means you have to provide your new DNS IP addresses with the format as follows: NS1: 192.188.192.20
NS2: 216.193.207.106
Normally, for the DNS records to be modified through all the WHOIS servers, it will take your hosting service around a day or two. For you to be able to monitor the status of your DNS transfer, you can use Whois tools over the web.
Once you have completed the transfer, you will see a change in your DNS. This means that you can add slight changes in your website. You will be assured that you have transferred DNS successfully when you notice the changes you employed have effects on the website.
