Many of my clients come to me after they have already purchased high priced hosting. Many of them pay $19.95 (or more) for hosting just one domain. There is no reason to pay that much! Most good hosting packages, which still include ALL the bells and whistles, only cost between $4 and $8 per month. Even unlimited domains can usually be hosted for around the $8 per month charge!

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Do You Want to Switch to Lower Cost Hosting? It’s really not that hard to do. If you need help with this part, just ask me at the bottom of this page.

Here’s How To Change To Another Host:

Changing hosting accounts – Did you sign up with an expensive host and now you want to change to Host Gator, or some other high-value/low-cost host? No Problem!

Here’s how to do it:
1. Go ahead and open an account with another host. You will need to tell them what the domain name is that you will be hosting. The host will send an email with all of your login information. The information will contain your FTP information. (If you are using a high priced host because they make it easy for you to publish your site without FTP, you will need to download a free FTP program and learn how to use it. The process of FTP is very easy.)
You will need to configure your FTP software to connect with your host via its IP address. The IP address will look sort of like this (but your numbers will be different) 120.21.218.8 instead of the normal www.yoursite.com or ftp.yoursite.com. You will need to FTP to the IP address instead of the domain address because the domain is still pointing to your old host.

2. Upload your site to the new host. Read the email very carefully as to where the files should go. Some hosts require the files in the “www”, “html”, “public”, etc. folders.

3. When the site is uploaded, login to your domain registrar’s account (where you bought the domain…not necessarily where you have your hosting) and change your domain’s name server information to what was supplied to you in the new host’s email. The name server addresses will look something like this:
NS28.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS29.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
There will always be two name servers.

4. After you change the name server information, make a slight change to your home page and upload it to the new server (you still have to use the IP address connection for now). Make sure it is a change you can easily see.

5. In a few hours (it could take up to 48), go to your site in your browser (www.yoursite.com) and look for that change. You will not see the change right away because the DNS servers around the world still are pointing to your old host. Eventually, they will become updated with the new name servers you supplied. At that time you will see the minor change you made on your page.

6. Now you know for sure that people are visiting your site on your new host. It may take 48 hours to get all the name servers updated around the world. Therefore, wait 48 hours and then delete the other files on the other host. This is important because there could be server logs out there somehow indexed by Google (it does happen) which would have your old host’s IP address listed. This could cause duplicate content issues! Be sure to delete the files. Don’t forget to close the account too!

7. You may leave your FTP software configured to your new host account with the IP address or you may change it to your domain path…see your email for the FTP path using the domain name.

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