How to change hosting over? Easy or not?

[tlworkwear]

Yeah I think I got it sorted now thanks

emailed one.com now and hope to hear back from them soon.

[mel777]

Hi Phil

I see you have made the move to Christian now so a bit late in offering advice on how to move your WP site (I have run website hosting companies since 2000). However I would advise you edit your post and remove your email address so those pesky spam bots and scrapper bots do not pick-up that email address.

For anybody else with the same issue moving a WP site from one provider to another is quite easy
Using PHPMyAdmin backup your database (SQL Export) to your PC
Backup your website files
Open new hosting account
Create your domain, email, etc with new hosting company
Upload your website files to the new hosting account (FTP / SFTP, etc). At this stage you will probably login via an assigned IP address as the domain is not there.
Most hosting providers will give you an IP address for their MySQL Database servers *Take a note of this IP *
Using PHPMyAdmin create your database with new hosting provider and upload your SQL backup

Ok now to stop any kind of downtime and database problems, login to your existing website hosting provider and edit your wp-config.php file and change the DB_HOST value to the database IP address from the new provider. Save, refresh browser and if site still works you are good to go / If not undo change and double check.

Obviously at the moment you have 2 website hosting accounts live so now login to your domain name registrar and update your nameservers to the ones provided by your new hosting provider thus there should be no downtime. Most propagation these days is typically an hour but does vary.

You can then close existing website hosting account.

Regarding email - My suggestion for those on a budget is to either utilise free outlook.com (they support custom domains) or a paid service such as gmail / Microsoft exchange (£2.35 per month). For bulk emailing use Mandrill.

Hope this helps someone.