Switch Hosting Providers – How to Transfer a Web site

You have seen the benefits CMather can offer you and your online business. We offer many hosting plans for different needs your business may have. If you are like the many others who appreciate the benefits CMather can offer as a web hosting solution, then it is time to make the switch! There are a few steps you need to take to transfer your data to us so we get you set up under a new web hosting plan.

First you need to contact your old web host’s support team. Unless you are webmaster, you will need their assistance in compressing your data to prepare it for transfer. If the reason you are making the switch to CMather is because your old company has terrible customer support, we can help you with this process. Our main concern as a web hosting provider is to take care of our customers, and we can handle the transfer of your data from our end. Before you or anyone else compresses your data, you must make sure your database has a name that you can correspond to your new web site. Descriptive names will help you match old locations with new databases on our server.

CMather is proud to say that we can handle every aspect of moving web sites to our servers. We look after all the technical aspects so you don’t have to. This includes uploading your site and databases and changing the DNS records. Your information is compressed, making for a faster data transfer time from your old server to ours. Our web hosting support team will decompress your site and all the data into the new server. Once this is complete, the paths to all your scripts will be changed if they have been hard coded to match your databases. This is the most challenging step in the transfer process, and we have an experienced web staff that will take care of this for you.

The final step in a web hosting transfer is to change the direction that the cyber arrows of the DNS records are pointing. We shift the lines of information from your old server to CMather with minimal web site downtime. We understand the importance of not having information overlap over servers because it can cause problems with e-commerce, sites that depend on data being saved while users browse the site and overall communications. For the best in web hosting benefits and easy transfers, be sure to take advantage of the services provided by CMather.