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Your web hosting company may not be able to keep up with the speed your business is growing, or your website may not be up to par with meeting your needs. In any case, the best solution to this conundrum is to switch web hosting companies.

Before you change your site provider, take the necessary steps prior to the change to ensure that it will be easy, seamless and worry free. Embarking a web hosting company change will be easier if you stick to your plan.

To seamlessly transfer your website from one hosting company to a different company, make sure you give yourself plenty of time to understand, complete and then test each step of the process. From the time your new site is up and running to the initial planning stage, requires 3 to 4 weeks. After you've thoroughly researched and identified your potential business-partner site, your new site can be up and running within 24-48 hours.

First, and most importantly, make sure you've done a complete back up of all of the files on your current web site, even if you have them stored on an external hard drive. You should always back up all important files. Backups are like insurance, you never appreciate having them until a catastrophe strikes.

So, even though it may be tempting to eliminate this step, you may live to regret it. It is strongly recommended that you have backup copies of script, database and server log files, as well as the HTML files. The mirrors the one on your web server makes downloading files easier and the transition is easy to transfer.

Once you receive confirmation from your new web hosting company that your account has been activated, you can upload your files to the new server. You shouldn't have any problems uploading your information to the new site, considering you already have your files saved in a similarly structured directory . Once you have finished the previous steps, the new web site can be tested to make sure every thing operates as it should.

When everything is flawless and working smoothly you are prepared to change your old Domain Name Server (DNS)r to the one that has been provided to you by the current web hosting company. All that you must do now is relax and wait for the hits to begin.