My host sucks big time. All went well for the first month or so and then it hit the fan. Every month my sites are down, sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes for hours.(like right now) During this time I can't access my cpanel, I can't access the host's website and my emails to support bounce back.

This is annoying. I'm thinking of moving to a different host, and while I realize no one can keep every site up 100% of the time, there has to be somewhere better than this.

So, how easy is it to switch? I've never had to do this before and frankly it scares me. I've got so many files on my account, I'm in redirect hell with three or four redirects for every page, and of course the forums have to be moved too. I'm worried I'll mess up the delicate structure I've got going on by moving it all. Someone tell me it's super simple. Please.

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It scared me a lot, but the switch took about an hour total, with no issues at all!!

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Depending on the host that you move to, most of them will actually take care of the difficult part for you and do the moving of the site for you. I would suggest using hostingzoom's failover hosting, because that plan includes use of 2 servers, one of which is dedicated 99% of the time to serving your mysql DB's. If your main server goes down, the mysql server will take over within only a matter of 1 or 2 minutes, and have your site back online.

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If you do your honework right and your new host is cooprative, it should be quite smooth

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If you find the right host with a knowledgeable + helpful team, the switch should go over quite smoothly.

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Thanks. I'm switching to A Small Orange and it seems they might be able to transfer the forum for me, which would be great. I can do the other files, I just don't want to muck up the forum.

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It's helpful if you move from for example one CPanel server to another CPanel server. It's possible to automatically transfer an account directly from one server to the other without any downloading or reuploading etc.

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I think I have a problem. I have to change my name servers but I don't remember what company i registered my domain name with! It's not the same as my current host.

Is there a way I can find out who I registered with? I tried whois but they only list my host. I can't believe I don't remember it, I even checked back through all my emails and I can't find the welcome email from them etiher.

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You can't go wrong with Asmallorange. I currently use them and have had no problems.


If it's Central Pets, it's at enom.

http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d...alpetz&tld=com

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Yes, that's it thank you! I wonder why it didn't show up like that when I searched whois?

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