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Changing web hosting companies - HOWTO

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The steps outlined bellow are meant to describe the things that must be done when switching web hosting providers in order to assure almost no downtime for your web site and email traffic. We've tried to be as detailed as possible while in the same time tried to keep the instructions simple. They should give you an idea for the process in general.

1. Find a new webhost
The first thing to do when you are not happy with your web hosting company or when your site has grown so big that it cannot fit in the web hosting plans that your current company offers is to start looking for a new place to host your site. The reasons to change a web hosting company may vary: the hosting plan you are using is too expensive; the hosting server might be slow; the email services might be unreliable; the current resources are not enough for your web site; lack of some features on the hosting plan, etc. In general each person will have his own reason to move. Well, despite what is the reason for moving, the first thing that you should do is start looking for a new web hosting company. As there are so many web hosts on the market today, looking for a new web hosting server may become somehow a tough task to accomplish. That's why sites like ours www.besthostratings.com exist. The purpose of our site is to help you find a web hosting company by providing information about most of the web hosting companies on the market in one place so you can compare their offerings and choose the one that meets your site requirements. Once you have found a web hosting plan that has all that your web site requires, you can read through the user reviews we have so you can see how reliable is the web hosting company, how they treat customer requests. In other words you can get an idea what will be the service provided by the given web hosting company. You may also wish to check our How to pick up a host?  article where some tips and tricks to help you in the process of finding a new web hosting provider are described

Once you have made your choice, go ahead and order a new hosting package with the company you have decided to go with. Once you receive your new hosting plan account information (Welcome email) you can proceed to step 2.

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