The
only requirement is that you do not delete your current web
hosting account until your new one with us is setup. Follow
the steps below to ensure ZERO downtime and not lose any business
off your website.
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 @ Ezy Guide
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!
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 Ezy Guide.
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. Please 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!
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!
