Switching Hosting Companies, How to Move a Website (To a
Different Platform)
When switching hosting companies and/or changing the actual
platform that your site is hosted on, windows or UNIX for
example. There are some things that you will need to take into
consideration. If your site is in ASP, then it will only work on
a IIS Server (Windows Based platform). If you designed your site
in HTML (using html/htm extensions), then you will have no
problem moving to a new platform.
If you plan on changing your site from php to asp (or vice
versa) you will also need to know that the rankings those pages
have will be lost, so you will need to take the appropriate
action to make sure you do not lose the traffic.
PHP & ASP Hosting, Together At Last
The good news is there are program out there today that will
allow you to have both PHP and ASP pages on the same server.
This is a great addition, and very helpful for those that would
like to keep their site intact with their current coding while
incorporating either PHP or ASP in to the site.
Switching IP Addresses
& Hosting Providers
Anytime you are moving a website from one IP address to another, you
should always have both sites up on both IPs to allow the search
engines and DNS servers update their records in order to reflect the
new IP address. Having the IP address up on both will ensure that
there will be no lost in traffic and search engine rankings.
If you are changing hosting companies, typically you purchase them
in 1 month intervals. Have your site on both for that month, so if
the search engines come to find your site, you'll be sure to not
lose any traffic.
If done right, switching hosting companies should not have hardly
any impact to your site/online business. People generally purchase
hosting plans on a month to month basis, so it would be worth that
extra payment to have your site up on the old and the new hosting
company for that one month period. And As always, you should have a full and current back-up of your
site at all times.
So, Remember
- Have a current back (just incase something goes wrong)
- Have your site available on both IPs for a month.
- Changing the extensions ASP to PHP will cause you to loose
rankings (you will need to setup redirects for each page)
Gerard Manning
Search Engine Placement Specialist
Search Engine Marketing Agency :: Manning
Search Marketing
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