10 useful points to follow before switching web hosts

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Switching a website from one web host to another is a task that includes some risks and troubles. It is a bit difficult but not impossible. Following are10 useful tips that will provide you with positive results and make your switching easier and effective:

1.Before choosing any web hosting plan, always ensure that your web hosting plan comes with huge storage capabilities to handle website storage requirements up to any extent. Ensure to select the plan that has more space than your website needs. In the case of any doubt about the website space, do ask the current host or look for the control panel.

2.Compare the current and new web hosting plans regarding the storage capacity. Always ensure that your emails and log files should not be counted in your total storage.

3.Check the operating system of your current and new web hosting plan as sometimes it makes a big difference between a broken and working website. If your website works on the platform of Windows using ASP scripting, then it becomes difficult to work on a Unix server. So, always ask for the operating system whether it is Unix or Windows server.

4.The Frontage of the current and new hosting plan should be same. Do check it before switching to a new web hosting plan.

5.Check the bandwidth of the hosting plan and its charges. The amount of the bandwidth of the current and new hosting plans should be similar.

6.Find out whether your new hosting plan offers you with the same amount of email accounts, mail forwards, autoresponders, etc. as your current hosting plan does.

7.Always check the shopping cart using conditions. If you have any shopping cart on your website, will you be able to move it to your new web hosting server?

8.Always try to switch to that hosting plan that provides you with the opportunity of supporting all scripts. Ty to do modifications if needed in the scripts to make the scrips enable for the new host server.

9.Before transferring your domain name, ensure to set up your current email accounts on the new host server.

10.Last but not the least, find out the uploading method of your website pages to the new server. Check out if the new web host will do it for you or not and if yes, then for what charges.

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