Transferring your site from another host with ZERO downtime

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The only requirement is that you do not delete your current web hosting account until your new one with us is setup. Follow the steps below to ensure ZERO downtime and not lose any business off your website.


Moving / Transferring from other Web Host (ZERO DOWNTIME!)  
 
 
  DO NOT CHANGE YOUR NAMESERVERS JUST YET NOR DELETE YOUR CURRENT WEB HOST!

 Establish a hosting account with us. You will then be able to access your new account via the server's hostname which you will get on your setup email. Start uploading your website files to your domain folder through FTP or any other site publishing software (FrontPage, Dreamweaver, etc.)

 In your welcome email, you will get a temporary link to access your NEW web site before anything goes live. Verify that everything is working on your NEW site (graphics, web pages, links, etc...)

 Once verified, go to your registrar and change your "name servers" to those that are mentioned in your setup email.

 Your site will be updated WORLDWIDE within 24-72 hours. Note: although you may be able to see your site is on your new server within possibly 12 hours, please allow a complete 72 hour cycle before you delete your account with your old host.


  If you wish to transfer domain management to us also, please leave this until the above has been carried out.  We will then ask you to ask your old domain host to change your IPS TAG (domain tag) to ours....  as the nameservers would have already been changed this will allow the move of your domain to complete without any interferance...   When the IPS TAG has changed we`ll go and grab your domain name for you.....

[EEZEE Lance]

when you setup your hosting account, you will need to setup your mail accounts also...   when the nameservers are changed we are at the mercy of the DNS propagation, so its hit and miss during this time what server will get the email...  the old or the new... as the senders and receivers dns may change at different times.

if the sender hits the new server before the receiver, then mail will wait for the receivers dns to catchup

so with email its a bit hit and miss, but the total time it takes isn`t really long when you think how many ISP`s it has to propagate via...

the above suggestions is to ensure your site stays up and visable, just advise your users there maybe slight mail disruption to email and you should be fine.