Migrating smoothly from one web host to anotherChanging your Web Host can be an expensive, time consuming and difficult practice; being the main reason why many dissatisfied customers prefer to stay and put up with an awful hosting service.
During most website migrations, through lack of knowledge or experience, many website owners end up loosing clients and damaging time-built company images, because their sites are unavailable for days or weeks on end. Another problem is loss of emails, some crucial, making migrations very expensive and even dangerous.
Migration from one web host to another is not difficult; it can be fast and safe when one knows what the experts know. By following the steps below you will stand a better chance of a smooth transfer.
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Choosing Your Top Level Domain
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Once you have figured out a name for your domain' it can be really confusing trying to decide on what should go after the "dot" (i.e. com, net, org, etc...) in your domain name. This part of the domain name is referred to as a top-level domain (TLD) and knowing the difference between each top-level domain is important when choosing your domain name.
Below are the descriptions of the best known top-level domains:
.com This is the most popular TLD. It is used mainly for US commercial organizations. BUT, in its capacity, it represents the highest standing for any domain name. Anyone can have a .com', but it is more difficult to think up a unique name that hasn't already been registered.
.net This is the second most popular TLD. It generally describes the entity owning the domain name as a network and is used mainly by organizations that provide network connection services.
.gov Generally used for government agencies.
.int Intended to be used for sites relating to International Treaties or containing international databases. For this reason, it is not widely used.
.mil Mainly used by military organizations of the US government.
.org In general, non-profit organizations tend to use this extension.
.name This is a new TLD and is intended to allow individuals to register their names (i.e. firstname.lastname.name) as a personal domain name on the Internet.
.biz This is a new TLD for businesses; .biz' is intended to be an alternative to the .com'.
.info This is also new, and is freely available to anyone with a business, government or non-commercial site.
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What's in a Name?A name can make of break a web site. I am of course talking about a Domain name.
You may think there is nothing to it. Pick a catchy domain name that rolls off the tongue, check that it is available and if it is go ahead and buy it. It couldn't be any harder that that can it?
Well, yes it can. Just stop and think for a minute. You have bought the domain name, designed and built a great looking website, and launched it out onto that great world wide web. You have got a great Reciprocal Link Exchange on your site and you have reached a reasonable Google Page Rank.
Then you decide to get an Auto responder to have a mailing list, and that is when your troubles start! Let me tell you my story...
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