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Thank you for entrusting us with the foundation of your online presence, whether that’s a business website, professional-looking email address or a completely new digital venture. Moving your hosting or domain services requires thoughtful planning and careful execution. To assist you in making this transition as seamless as possible, we’ve compiled a checklist outlining each step of the process.
  • Check what you actually need to move
  • Choosing a plan
  • DNS
  • Files
  • Emails
  • Backing up your data
  • Domain transfer
  • Cancelling your old service
Lets go over the checklist in a bit more detail: Check what you actually need to move
Domains, DNS, Website and Emails can all be supplied from different providers. If you are happy with one aspect of your current hosting, you are more than welcome to keep it. Just keep in mind, you will have to alter some DNS records to get things working. Choosing a plan
Once you have confirmed what you would like to host with us, it’s time to choose a plan. We have many plans ranging from a Starter cPanel, moving into Wordpress-specific plans with a special dashboard, all the way to Unmanaged servers for when you want to take complete control.
Once you have the plan locked in, you can browse any introductory offers available and make the purchase, its at this stage you either select a domain name to be registered or enter one in that you want to be transferred to us.
If you don’t have an account already, not to worry, one is easily set up as part of the checkout process. DNS
DNS is a very important part of staying online and is very important to consider. If you have a cPanel/Wordpress or Server, you will be managing your DNS through that service. If you only have a domain name with us, you can head to the DNS tab in your portal. Files
If you have cPanel, great news, we can migrate the files for you! Once the plan is all setup and before changing name servers, please raise a ticket or give us a call to get some details from you. If you have a different Linux based hosting service, not to worry, the process is pretty straightforward, you just need to ensure you get the databases, files, resources required for your website, then upload them to your new hosting service. Because of the file-manager upload limitations, you please use FTP clients for large files. Emails
If we do a migration from your current cPanel to ours, the emails should come across smoothly.
If you prefer to do it yourself or have a MS365/SmarterMail/GSuite type service, you can utilise online tools that sync mailboxes or backup the email accounts to a file using an application and then importing once the accounts are setup again. If you are keeping your current mail provider, retrieve any Zone Records (MX, authentication TXT records) that will need to be replicated.