How to Move Your Website
On Google, any people ask about moving to another web host or IP address without having any sort of glitches. If you have a static website or can spare one day when the site can move between two IP addresses, this would be helpful. However, if you have a dynamic site, the concept will remain the same, but will be slightly more difficult for you. The steps involved in the process are these:
Step 1: Sign up with a good web host provider
It’s always wise to make an intensive research or follow some references in order to have a good web host. As far as I am concerned, I selected csoft.net after the research that did exhibit a brilliant readership, whereas, pair.com was the selection of my non-SEO friend. To clarify the fact, we can assume shifting from csoft.net to pair.com and the IP is going to change then from 63.x.x.x to 65.x.x.x. A machine makes use of DNS system (like 61.115.6.132 ) in order to map websites to the IP address.
Step 2: Create a backup of your website on the new web host
Having a static website is good as that would mean that just copying the whole file to the new web host – that is all. Having a blog makes it harder as it usually involves MySQL for storage of posts. Some e-commerce websites are more difficult for this reason as the database is always synced. In this case, you may have to set up a replica of the database between the old and new locations during the switch.
Let’s cite an instance of a WordPress blog using MySQL database which can afford to be down for a couple of hours with little problem. Firstly, assume that you have used the FTP or tar for copying the static files from one web host to the other. You then need to create a fresh MySQL database on the new host. Normally, you can give the same username and database name. If not, then make sure you tweak the WordPress wp-config.php on the new location for updating the username, database name, and other relevant things.
You now have a new SQL database so you can get away with the old one, copy it to the new one, and then load the database there.
You have to remember that you not only have a username and password for both the web hosts, but different usernames and passwords for the database at every location. You might have the MySQL database stored on a unique location, the reason you should know the host option while database restoration. If the new host has a unique option for the database, you will need to edit the wp-config.php file, otherwise WordPress will not be able to access the database on your new host.
You have similar copies of your website at two different locations. If your blog is just updated with a few comments daily, it is not a big deal if a comment is posted or if someone changes your database during a time when the transition is taking place. However, if your site is huge and based on e-commerce, you will need to work hard to keep both databases synchronized.
Step 3: Changing the DNS to point to the new web host
One needs to have an acquaintance with the term DNS because it’s of paramount significance. Your IP address is indispensable for any agent striving to get to your site-be it Googlebot or anybody else. Rechecking the IP address after 500 fetches in order to determine the authenticity or making sure if some hours have gone are common factors. TTL (Time to Live), calculated in seconds, does have an impact if you have DNS-enabled browsers. It states that your fetched IP address is going to be safe for ‘x’ seconds and for this much time, the address can be stored. The browser is expected to proceed very slowly simply because the IP address is meant for everything on each webpage of your site.
TTL takes on an important role for DNS. Some websites like Yahoo!, Google, MSN, etc. have quite short DNS TTL setting of about 300-900 seconds. If you have several data centers, you will like to take one of them down to enable the data center mechanic to provide good data to the machines. If you have a short TTL, you will be able to pull the IP address of a data center out of the rotation in a few minutes.
The ‘Google Dance’ phenomenon lasted for about a week and would show the old as well as the new results depending on the data center which the user hit. This is because every data center was taken down and brought back up after loading with new data. T needed many days to switch the data to all the centers. Webmasters checked out www2.google.com or www3.google.com as they led them to the latest data centers. Today, the production system is better equipped to switch these things in much less time.
Step 4: Wait while the DNS change is propagated through the internet
Being mainly a TTL function, it banks upon the fact if you are really getting to the name servers present in the DNS at this time. Remember that DNS is hierarchical and the process of DNS caches getting into flushes is time-consuming as the TTL is exceeded. This switch gets faster with a smart registrar and a recognized set of the new name servers and it slabs place at the root of DNS. In order to be sure if the new name server is there on the root server, one can employ ‘dig+trace domain’ in UNIX and Linux.
Step 5: You are almost done with your task when you are sure that Googlebot is fetching from the new web host and the IP address. In such a case, the old website can be shut down.
With the aid of your domain, your IP address can be verified. Make yourself familiar with the proceedings and remember that the new visitors should be endowed with the new IP address, whereas, it is possible for the previous visitors to employ the old IP address from their DNS store. Permitting a couple of days is recommended because it is possible for some people to possess long TTL set, although, these are mostly meant for a day or even less. So, get rid of hosting on the old location after a day. In order to have an infallible verification on this, test your logs and it is perfect if your log doesn’t show any previous visitors.
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