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| Moving / Transferring
from other Web Host (ZERO DOWNTIME!) |
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DO NOT CHANGE
YOUR NAMESERVERS JUST YET NOR DELETE YOUR CURRENT
WEB HOST! |
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Establish a
hosting account with us. You will then be
able to access your new account via the server's
hostname that you will get on your setup email. |
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Start uploading your website
files to your domain folder through FTP or any
other site publishing software (FrontPage, Dreamweaver,
HomeSite, etc.) |
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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.) |
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Once verified,
go to your registrar and change your "name
servers" to those that are mentioned in your setup
email. |
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Your site
will be updated WORLDWIDE within 24-72 hours.
Note: although you may be able to see your site
on the new server within possibly 12 hours, please
allow a complete 72-hour cycle before you delete
your old host. |
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Enjoy your
new site @ Web Host Fort. 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!
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| If you already
bought a domain name and want to host with us: |
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First step
is to establish a web hosting account with us.
Start by ordering any of our premium web hosting
plans. |
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After the payment
is verified, you will receive a setup email within
30 seconds with all the usernames / passwords
to grant you server access 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. |
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Once you have
everything verified, return to the place where
you originally registered your domain (your registrar).
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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 usually make these changes) please
email your registrar or call and tell them to
change your name servers to those provided to
you in your setup email from us. |
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After the
DNS changes have been made, your domain will now
begin to point to your server with Web Host Fort.
This will take 24-72 hours to resolve worldwide
as every ISP updates their DNS at different times.
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If after 48 hours
you cannot access your domain via www.yourdomain.com,
please do a whois on your domain HERE
to make sure your name servers show up as those
provided in your setup email. If they do not,
call your registrar right away to get it corrected!
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| Want to transfer
your domain name to Web Host Fort as your domain registrar? |
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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 one
place? |
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First step is
to 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. |
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Type in the domain
you want to transfer to us. |
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Please make sure
the admin contact email is an active email because
an email will be sent to this address to approve
the transfer. You can find out the email address
by doing a WHOIS HERE. If you need to update the
email address, please go to where you registered
the domain and make the changes. |
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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, as when you do this transfer it
will add one year on TOP of the current expiration
date! So just add one year to its expiry date
now! |
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Once you have
processed this, keep a look out for an email,
approve it and wait for about 24-48 hours for
the whole process to complete. If you have already
approved the email and in the domain control panel
you see the process is incomplete, contact your
registrar and ask them why they haven't released
it. |
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While 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. |
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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 with 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! |
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