If you are switching from another hosting service to Woktron, the steps you need to take to accomplish this are fairly straightforward. This knowledgebase article provides you with a to-do list for switching your site hosting to Woktron Web Hosting.
Note!
Woktron provides free migrations of your websites. These steps are only necessary in case you wish to perform the migration to our servers yourself.
Contact our technical support team in case you would like us to arrange your migration for you.
- Don’t be tempted to cancel your old hosting service until you have completely migrated your sites to Woktron, and have tested that everything is working properly. If you do cancel your old hosting, and something goes wrong with the migration to Woktron, your site will be offline until you solve the problem.
- Use your control panel’s backup option to backup all of your sites, and then download them in your browser to your desktop.
- Log in to your control panel here at Woktron, and use the restore function to upload the site backups you previously downloaded.
- Now you need to change your websites DNS records to point at the new IP address of your Woktron Web Hosting. Please note, that it can take up to 24 hours for DNS changes to propagate globally.
- Once you are sure that your DNS changes have fully propagated, a test that your site is working perfectly on your Woktron Web hosting account. If it is, you can now go ahead and cancel your old hosting service.
All of the Woktron hosting packages come with free 24x7 support. So if you are having problems migrating your site to your shared hosting here at Woktron, or setting up your VPS hosting, we are on hand to help.
