As well as personal computer work, I do work for businesses too.
The customer was using a USA webhosting provider, and had domain registration, website, and email storage with them. They wanted to migrate to a UK-based provider (better support, and in this case lower costs per year too)
These are the steps I took to effect the migration…
- Chose a suitable provider, and sign up for a hosting package with them
- Backup the website data
- Move the email data to another [temporary] server
- Setup forwarding of incoming emails (so we don’t lose any data during the switch-over period)
- Load the website data onto the new servers
- Perform the domain transfer, and wait for DNS records to propagate
- Move the email data onto the new server
- Setup webmail on PC and smartphone
- Test everything
- Cancel the subscription on the old provider
We have plans to convert the HTML website to a WordPress-powered site too, and will be discussing that with the customer next week
Sorry there are no photos, it’s not that type of work!