How to Transfer Your Website to Another Host

Basically, moving a website to another host consists of the following steps:

1. Moving the website's files.

2. Moving the website's database(s) (if it uses any).
3. Reconfiguring your application(s) to work at the new location.
4. Pointing your domain's DNS to the new host.

1. The most convenient way to transfer your website's files to your new
web hosting account is through FTP. You can connect to your other hosting account and download the files locally. Then you should upload them to your hosting account's main folder (usually public_html, www or httpdocs).

2. Transferring the databases is a little bit more complicated. You have to export the information from your old hosting account, create a new database in your current hosting account and import the information in it.


3. How to configure your website to work from its new location in most cases depends on the speciffic application you are using.


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