Moving my hosting company

tkowebworks · 08-23-2011, 05:49 PM

Hello,

I would like to move one of my clients site to a hopefully better hosting company.

Will it affect their current website if I create a subdomain for them for now for this site on this new hosting, while their site is still on the main domain on the other hosting.
Can I just rename the sub domain to the main domain?

So i have www.theirsite.com at xyz hosting
Creating new site on www.theirsite.com/subname at 123 hosting
Once I am finished with the new site on the sub is it easy to move that to www.theirsite.com and just cancel the old hosting?

Thanks as always for your help or opinions

stach14 · 08-24-2011, 05:14 PM

Yes you can do things this way. It is kind of like adding extra steps though. It would be simple to just signup for the new hosting account, upload everything and get new hosting site ready to go live, then update DNS. People will go to old site until they get the update and then start going to new site. No downtime and 48 hours later you can cancel the old hosting.

Keep in mind if you go this sub directory route and use wordpress, it is very tricky and a pain to convert back to a standalone website.

Plusplushosting · 09-26-2011, 12:51 PM

Go for a medium sizes company and I guarantee they will provide more personal help and be more willing to assist you in your needs.

cpios · 09-27-2011, 01:04 PM

A small company can be good for you too.

08-23-2011, 05:49 PM	#1
tkowebworks New Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 8	Moving my hosting company Hello, I would like to move one of my clients site to a hopefully better hosting company. Will it affect their current website if I create a subdomain for them for now for this site on this new hosting, while their site is still on the main domain on the other hosting. Can I just rename the sub domain to the main domain? So i have www.theirsite.com at xyz hosting Creating new site on www.theirsite.com/subname at 123 hosting Once I am finished with the new site on the sub is it easy to move that to www.theirsite.com and just cancel the old hosting? Thanks as always for your help or opinions __________________ Cruise the Danube River in Europe Nightlife in Orange County

08-24-2011, 05:14 PM	#2
stach14 New Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Washington Posts: 19	Yes you can do things this way. It is kind of like adding extra steps though. It would be simple to just signup for the new hosting account, upload everything and get new hosting site ready to go live, then update DNS. People will go to old site until they get the update and then start going to new site. No downtime and 48 hours later you can cancel the old hosting. Keep in mind if you go this sub directory route and use wordpress, it is very tricky and a pain to convert back to a standalone website. __________________ Quality Hosting since 1996 Fully Managed Virtual & Dedicated Servers M3Server.com- FFMPEG, WordPress, Joomla, PHP Optimized Servers SKYPE: chris.stach14

09-27-2011, 01:04 PM	#4
cpios New Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 20	A small company can be good for you too. __________________ Cpios.com - Native cPanel and WHM client for iPhone and iPad.

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09-26-2011, 12:51 PM	#3
Plusplushosting New Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 11	Go for a medium sizes company and I guarantee they will provide more personal help and be more willing to assist you in your needs.