Switching Web Hosting Providers: The Website

A website is usually made up of one or two things:
  • Files (.htm, .html, .jpg, .gif, .php, etc)
  • Database(s)
The website (the files) is the easiest thing to move to your new web host. There are two steps:
  1. Download (via FTP) all the files from your current host, then;
  2. Upload (via FTP) all the files to your new host.
Onto the database(s)...Step 2 »