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The purpose of writing this post is to give you a few tips on how to prepare for transferring host provider.  You will NOT go through the bad experience that I did when I switched the web host provider from the Hostgator to Bluehost.  I do not want you to learn the hard way as I did.  Read on and I promise you will learn something valuable.

First I like the service the Hostgator provided to me and other subscribers.  The one problem I did not like was, when I asked for a discount on converting from the monthly to annually payment.  I had no choice but to find another provider.  Then I searched and found the Bluehost which is not the best as Hostgator, but I found it economical because I could get one FREE domain along with the hosting service as long as I have my domain hosted there.  So far I think Bluehost is just average guy in the web hosting business in my opinion.

My number one tip and fore most is you do not have to take the technical support guy advice all the time.  I said it because I found that they did not have the experience through hands-on.  They just know from reading or classroom training.  This happened when I asked them on how to prepare for transferring a server.  I was told to use the cpanel and do the full backups.  That is wrong you can not use it to restore your whole account that way.  You can use only the databases of your account to transfer them to your new host.

Here is my instruction for transferring your host if you have just WordPress blog(s):

1- Before you go ahead and cancel your account, go to your cpanel>>backup, click each of your databases and backup them to your desktop or your local hard drive.  Also backup your images, plugins, themes folders of each of your domains.  Write down all of your login names and pass words.

2- After the cancellation, go to your new host provider see if they have Fantastico or WP on their cpanel.  Use one of them to install the WordPress blog.

3- Use FTP (Filezella) to access to your server.  Transfer all databases, images, plugins, themes to each individual domain.  Mostly they are under the “Content” directory.  Select the directories appropriately according to your domain.

4- Upload your theme file if you did modify it.

5- Go back cpanel >>backup>>select your new database>>import to your blog and check it to see it working properly the way it was before transferring.

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