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If you have a large website with a lot of sections, you might want to spread out the sections among different days. You may also want to upload the least-critical sections first. I can’t stress the importance of making sure you perform a backup before you start moving things. Use the temporary URL that your new host has provided you and check as many pages as possible.
Once you are satisfied and everything seems like it’s working correctly, change over your DNS to the new host. This usually takes 24 or 48 hours, so, you have a little time to perform minor fixes if it’s necessary. You may also want to use this spare time to modify your old website’s custom error pages to inform your visitors of the move and give them a new URL if there has been a URL change during the move.
After your DNS has finally resolved, don’t release your old hosting account just yet. Keep it on hand for as long as 2 weeks and run it frequently. Go back and check out your old servers for activity. Check out your old email account on the old hosting server to make sure that there isn’t any communication left over there. This is especially important if you have a web based form on your old server.
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