Changing a Web Hosting Company

So, at last when you have realized that your present web hosting company is providing the proper service and it is not the one should be stay up with, and you now thinking to change to another web hosting company, Don’t get so panic. Follow these simple things properly:

  • The first and most important thing, make sure you choose the reliable web hosting company and ensure that you are not making the same mistake again.
  • The main thing while shifting hosting companies is that your process is trouble-free and there is zero down time of the website, in terms of: Website Availability, Email Services, Search Engine Indexing & Data Transaction loss (In case you are running a dynamic website).

THINGS TO REMEMBER BEFORE CHANGING OF WEB HOSTS

  • Don’t forget to take a full backup of all the files and folders from your present hosting server.
  • Transfer all the files & folders to the new hosting server
  • Take a complete backup of your Data Base (DB) and transfer them to the new server.
  • Generate all the email accounts on the new server to ensure that he email won’t bounce.

After, doing all the above things change the Name Server of your domain to point to the new server. (It normally takes around 48 hours for the new name servers to pass around.)

By following these things, you will likely face no down time and email loss.

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This post was written by admin on March 11, 2009

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How to Save Disk Space on Your Server

While choosing a Web Hosting plan, the Disk space is ordered as per your requirement. But, after hosting your website, when your business starts to grow, that time you may recognize that the disk space is not enough for you. In that case you may have only two options – either change your current web hosting plan and pay for additional disk space, or preserve some disk space.

Following are the few tips that will help you to preserve your disk space.

Re-examine the graphics and media files

Visit your website and see if the website design contains lots of images or any media files, that you can take out a few graphic files. Check whether the use of colors in flyers, advertisements, banners and graphics explore the chances of reducing the amount of colors.

Look if the pictures have animation or rolling text, try making it still. Review all the design and graphics cautiously and make a note of all possibilities where changes can decrease the full size.

Re-examine the files

Check out the file types which are used for the graphics and contents. For ex. you can change the weighty image files such as .PNG or .BMP with JPEG files which almost maintain the unique image quality as well. In the same way, if you have some PDF files or PowerPoint presentation, try to compact those to ZIP files for visitors.

Updating Content

Examine all the contents and see if you really need all the content. Many times the content becomes outdated after a specific period. Rather than doing it yourself, use a professional content writer to clean off the content, and reduce it if possible.

Finally, don’t forget to keep a backup copy of all contents, graphics and images that you delete from your website. It assures that a copy of the previous version the website is all the time with you.

Posted under Linux Hosting, Linux VPS Hosting, Webhosting

This post was written by admin on March 1, 2009

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