Move website - change hosting provider
Are you unhappy with your current web hosting provider or do you simply want to move your website to another hosting provider?
Passion Computing can arrange the transfer of your domain and hosting to another provider.
To purchase domain transfer service, please request a quote by sending us your domain name, and when you want the transfer to occur and the number of email accounts/aliases associated with your domain name. We manage the domain and will email you before each of the following steps.
Method
- Transfer your domain (No charge for domain name transfer. Standard domain name prices apply if your domain name is due to expire) In step one, you will be simply transferring your domain name administration to our account, so that we can easily activate and manage your domain name transfer
- Sign up with new hosting provider and send us relevant emails from new hosting service
- We download your old website from your current hosting provider..
- Email accounts and aliases are set up with your new hosting provider.
- We upload your old website to your new hosting provider and test the site to ensure that there are no broken links or missing images or files and fix incompatiblity issues with new hosting provider
- We activate email forwarding and test that email forwarding is working before domain name transfer is activated.
- We activate the domain name transfer
- Once transfer is complete, we advise you to close down your account with old hosting provider
Guarantee
Passion Computing recognize that your website and email services are important. Every effort will be made to ensure that the transfer is as seamless as possible and risks minimized, however because domain name transfer relies on many providers, sometimes delays can occur and providers can make mistakes that are outside of our control.
At all times, we will maintain open and honest communication with you and work with providers to resolve any problems, should they occur.