Companies web site is the identity for those customer who communicating from distance and for international customers that's why companies want their web sites always up and up to date .Lac of support and long period of down time are two big reasons for migration of web site from one web hosting company to another web hosting company.

There are some essential steps for changing web hosts

Copy your Files:

Migrating web hosts is not happy move but we should care full and follow all pre requisites of moving web hosts from one location to another location .The very first step is copy all web site contents to new location it is not just copy of file from one location to another .it is complete management of all required file and folders which are important for running web site smoothly missing of single image can change complete structure of your web site .Most of web hosting companies provide user friendly interface for uploading new file and for creating new folders on disk of servers which makes customer life lot easier.

Check Your Internal Link

Internal link is that link which you are routing to specific domain and new URL .before updating all file and folder and move new web site in to production we should check our new link internally by putting under construction web page on that location.

By doing this we can achieve two things one we can check availability of web site and other we test new link is working correctly.

Back Up Old files Before Moving:

It is best idea if we will take back up of old web site file and folder before moving it in to production or on new hosted web site and save that backup on proper disk because in most of cases we need to come back and rollback whole migration plan then we need some backup file for that specific format.

Not Kill Old Web Site when New site UP:

It is not good idea you close your old web site immediately when you upload you new hosted web site because new web site can create problem in running and there are many measure which should test before closing old web site like response time of new web site and availability of new web site support of new web site but comparing all these measure you can get exact difference between old web site and new web site.

Database Migration Mirroring:

Company data is assert of company and it should secure and save .Most of companies use database on backend of their web site and database migration is the most difficult job because most of data exists in tabular form and all data will migrate in same table on destination database.

In conclusion migration of hosted web site is pain full process and it create problem and difficulties for organization but proper planning can help us in reducing most of difficulties and we can save our customer time and problem which he face during migration process.