Website Migration Process

• A website migration is the process of moving the files of a website from one web hosting company to another.
• It is both thrilling and at times scary to perform. Presently if your website is not planned properly and is growing haphazardly, it is time to make a change and consider redesigning it.
•  Available disk space and bandwidth are few things that need thought to improve the conditions of your site to preserve a stable flow of repeated as well as new visitors.
• The first critical step is to analyze and set the best time to move to a new host.
• The new host you choose should have a better plan that includes enhanced performance of the site, good features, improved stability and also the best price in the market.
•  A website migration will not be worrying, if the process is broken down and planned into steps.

1. Schedule the Migration when your website traffic levels are usually low.
2. All website visitors should be informed by a simple page that displays the date and time of the migration as well as the likely completion date.
3. It is a important to have a proper back up of your old site as it will give you time to find out the bugs and remove the problems.
4. Make sure you have the new web hosting information right. This includes FTP (File Transfer Protocol Information), the Control Panel login information, and Domain Name Servers (DNS) information.
5.  If you have regular customers and your site attracts lot of traffic, make sure to intimate all of them well in advance.
6. Once you have shifted to your new host, test everything. Fix the bugs and ensure that everything is ready and proper.
7. Make sure that all forms are working by doing several tests. This means that the form is emailed to the right people and/or making sure the information is entered in the database.
8. It is a good idea to ask a professional web tester to look at the website to make sure nothing is wrong.
9. After everything checks out, you can go to your domain registrar and change the domain name servers (DNS) to your new webhost.

For more details about Website Migration, E-Commerce Consulting, Website development and maintenance please feel free to contact Prevaj Consultants at prevaj@prevajconsultants.com or call +91-8144760745.

Tips to Migrate Websites

• Always migrate minimum amount of content possible. Website migration is an opportunity to streamline content and tidy up bloated websites. If a site is small or out of date, do not migrate it at all. It will often be a longer, more painful process to map, migrate, and tidy up a site for re-launch than it would be to just build the site from scratch on the new platform.
• Migrating websites is not just about the content but also subscribers and user accounts too.
• Website migration is reliant on site webmasters because you need them to identify content to be migrated, map old content to the new information architecture, and tidy up the migrated site for launch.
• Website migration usually involves mapping content from the old website onto the new.  It is a simple task for webmasters to rebuild the site structure and move pages to the correct attach points.
• Website migration also involves transferring data between databases. Be sure to have a strong technical team who understand your content at a technical level, understand the destination content structure, and have experience of migrating content from one platform to another.
•  Once a website is migrated from one platform to another there will be a period of parallel running before the new site is launched. During this period a webmaster needs to check and tidy up the migrated site before launch and maintain the old website which is still live. This period should be kept to a minimum.
• It is important to follow a timetable to migrate the website as it may take weeks or months to tidy up and launch websites.
•  Migrating multiple sites is a complicated and time consuming business. Careful planning, the right people, and a realistic timetable can minimize the pain for all involved. 

For more details about E-Commerce Consulting, Website development and maintenance please feel free to contact Prevaj Consultants at prevaj@prevajconsultants.com or call +91-8144760745.