Moving your Website to Melbourne IT

DNS is one of the most important things to consider to minimise downtime and ensuring that the change to MelbourneIT goes smoothly. There is the option to only use your MelbourneIT hosting for the website itself, and host DNS/Emails externally. Check within your hosting for the correct A Record (IP address) to use with your DNS host.

If you have purchased a cPanel service and want to use us for DNS, you can move the records onto the cPanel with us, then when you are ready delegate your domain to our default name servers: 


• ns1.mysecurecloudhost.com
• 
ns2.mysecurecloudhost.com
• ns3.mysecurecloudhost.com
• ns4.mysecurecloudhost.com

Please Note: many domain name TLDs lock the domain upon transfer/after a change to the contact information so you may not be able to update where the domain is delegated to right after.

Website Files

If you have had a cPanel previously, great news, we can migrate the files for you! Once your new 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, please use FTP clients for large files.

Tools

FileZilla, a FTP client for Windows - https://filezilla-project.org

CyberDuck, a FTP client for macOS - https://cyberduck.io

Jetbackup How to Guide can be found here

WhatsMyDNS, a DNS checker - https://www.whatsmydns.net