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8 Points To Be Considered When Switching Your Web Host
When you are moving your website from your present web host to a new one,the following points should be considered to make the transition smooth.
(1) Web space — The amount of web space offered by the new web host must be the same or more than the previous one. This information can be found from the web hosting control panel.
If the webspace offered by the previous web host is 50 MB,then the space available with the new host must be either equal to or more than 50 MB.
(2) How is your storage amount used for? Whether the emails and log files counted towards total storage or just the web files.
(3) Operating system used — What is the operating system used by the current and the new web host — windows or Unix? If a website is currently running on a windows server and if it uses ASP scripting, it will be difficult to run it on a Unix server. So these things are to be ascertained first.
(4) Bandwidth – Whether the new web host offers the same amount of bandwith as the current one offers. Otherwise you may be billed with unexpected overusage charges.
(5) Whether the new web host offers the same amount of email accounts,autoresponders and mail forwards as that offered by the current one.
(6)Shopping cart — If your site is using a shopping cart then whether it is possible to move the shopping cart to the new host. If it is not possible, then whether the new host can provide a suitable replacement.
(7) If the website uses any scripts then it has to be found out whether the new hosting plan supports such scripts or any modifications have to be made to the script to run it on the new server.
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