Moving / Transferring from other Web Host
(ZERO DOWNTIME!)
DO NOT CHANGE YOUR NAMESERVERS JUST YET
NOR DELETE YOUR CURRENT WEB HOST!
Establish a hosting account with us. You
will then be able to access your new account
via the server's hostname which you will get
on your setup email. Start uploading your
website files to your domain folder through
FTP or any other site publishing software
(FrontPage, Dreamweaver, HomeSite, etc.)
In your welcome email, you will get a
temporary link to access your NEW web site
before anything goes live. Verify that
everything is working on your NEW site
(graphics, web pages, links, etc...)
Once verified, go to your registrar and
change your "name servers" to those that are
mentioned in your setup email.
Your site will be updated WORLDWIDE
within 24-72 hours. Note: although you may
be able to see your site is on your new
server within possibly 12 hours, please
allow a complete 72 hour cycle before you
delete your old host.
Enjoy your new site @ Web Site Emporium
If you have any problems during the
transfer, please have a live chat session
with our support staff and let us know what
you've done so far, and we'll help you
finish it all up! EVEN IF YOU DO IT RIGHT,
drop us a line and let us know that you love
the speed!
If you already bought a domain name and want
to host with us:
First step is you establish a web
hosting account with us. Start by ordering
any of our premium web hosting plans.
After your payment is verfied you will
get your setup email within 30 seconds. In
there will be all your usernames / passwords
that grant you access to the server via your
assigned server hostname. Proceed to upload
your files to the server via the server's
hostname. MAKE SURE YOU PUT EVERYTHING IN
YOUR DOMAIN FOLDER and MAKE SURE YOU RENAME
YOUR HOMEPAGE "index.html" ALL LOWER CASE.
Then use the temporary link provided in the
email to view your site.
Once you have everything verfied go to
the place where you originally registered
your domain (your registrar).
In your setup email(s) there will be a
pair of DNS or Nameservers. Use those DNS to
change them for your domain. If you don't
have a domain control panel (that is where
you usally can do these changes) please
email your registrar or call them and tell
them to change your name servers to those
provided to you in your setup email from us.
After the DNS changes has been made your
domain will now begin to point to your
server with Web Site Emporium. This will
take 24-72 hours to resolve along the whole
world as every ISP updates their DNS at
different times.
If after 48 hours you can not access
your domain via www.yourdomain.com please do
a whois on your domain HERE make sure your
name servers show up as those provided in
your setup email. If they do not call your
registar right away to get it corrected!
Want to transfer your domain name to Web Site
Emporium as your domain registrar?
You already have a
domain that you registered somewhere else and
you want to move the domain itself physically to
us and get hosting to keep everything in on
place?
First step is you go to our domains
website HERE and open an account to login
into the domain portal. Once you created the
account click on transfer on the top right
side.
Type in the domain you want to transfer
to us.
Please make sure the admin contact email
is an active email because an email will be
sent to this email to approve the transfer.
You can find out that email this is by doing
a WHOIS HERE If that is not a current email
please go to where you registered the domain
and update it.
If you ask, the domain still has 6
months or 2 years left before it expires,
will i lose those? the answer is NO you will
not, when you do this transfer it will add
one year on TOP of the current expiration
date! So just add one year to when it
expires now!
Once you have processed this look out
for an email, approve it and just wait it
out about 24-48 hours for the whole process
to occur, if you already approved the email
and you login into your domain control panel
and you see the process is not complete,
contact your registrar and ask them why they
haven't released it.
Meanwhile all this is happening feel
free to buy your hosting plan and upload all
your files to the server. Remember once you
order hosting you have immediate access to
the server via the server's hostname.
If you don't want to move your domain to
us, you don't have to. All you have to do is
modify your DNS follow the steps above. But
remember that your domain will expire at
some point so it is wiser to add years to
the domain and not wait until the last
minute and risk losing your domain!
