Question : Moving to a website to a new webhost and email

Hello,

I have the following situation.
My webhost is hosting my website and my email for the domain. I want to move everything (website,DNS, and email) to the new webhost.

My question is what is the best way to go about it with minimal downtime?

Answer : Moving to a website to a new webhost and email

Hi,

The following is the best way.... If you are not administrator of the new web server.

1. Backup data from your existing hosting company....like wesite data, database and email . You can download your email data in you outlook.

2. Now Host your website on the New server , If you are using hosting control panel then it will automatically create server A records. you can also get temporrary URL from the hosting company to test the website before pointing to new server

Now without downtime....

1. Change A record of the website to the new server like www, * , MX record to point to new server service.

2. Change Name server of the website to New hosting company.  

Above 2 steps reduce 0 minute downtime of the website.

Regards,
sam