Moving
/ Transferring from other Web Host (ZERO DOWNTIME!)
DO NOT
CHANGE YOUR NAMESERVERS JUST YET NOR DELETE YOUR
CURRENT WEB HOST!
Establish a hosting account
with us. You will then be able to access your
new account via the server's hostname which you
will get on your setup email. Start uploading
your website files to your domain folder through
FTP or any other site publishing software (FrontPage,
Dreamweaver, HomeSite, etc.)
In your welcome email, you
will get a temporary link to access your NEW web
site before anything goes live. Verify that everything
is working on your NEW site (graphics, web pages,
links, etc...)
Once verified, go to your registrar and change
your "name servers" to those that are
mentioned in your setup email.
Your site will be updated WORLDWIDE within 24-72
hours. Note: although you may be able to see your
site is on your new server within possibly 12
hours, please allow a complete 72 hour cycle before
you delete your old host.
Enjoy your new site @ DTL Hosting If you have
any problems during the transfer, please have
a live chat session with our support staff and
let us know what you've done so far, and we'll
help you finish it all up! EVEN IF YOU DO IT RIGHT,
drop us a line and let us know that you love the
speed!
If you
already bought a domain name and want to host
with us:
First step is you establish
a web hosting account with us. Start by ordering
any of our premium web hosting plans.
After your payment is verfied
you will get your setup email within 30 seconds.
In there will be all your usernames / passwords
that grant you access to the server via your assigned
server hostname. Proceed to upload your files
to the server via the server's hostname. MAKE
SURE YOU PUT EVERYTHING IN YOUR DOMAIN FOLDER
and MAKE SURE YOU RENAME YOUR HOMEPAGE "index.html"
ALL LOWER CASE. Then use the temporary link provided
in the email to view your site.
Once you have everything verfied go to the place
where you originally registered your domain (your
registrar).
In your setup email(s) there will be a pair of
DNS or Nameservers. Use those DNS to change them
for your domain. If you don't have a domain control
panel (that is where you usally can do these changes)
please email your registrar or call them and tell
them to change your name servers to those provided
to you in your setup email from us.
After the DNS changes has been made your domain
will now begin to point to your server with DTL
Hosting. This will take 24-72 hours to resolve
along the whole world as every ISP updates their
DNS at different times.
If after 48 hours you can not access your domain
via www.yourdomain.com please do a whois on your
domain HERE make sure your name servers show up
as those provided in your setup email. If they
do not call your registar right away to get it
corrected!
Want to transfer
your domain name to DTL Hosting as your domain
registrar?
You
already have a domain that you registered somewhere
else and you want to move the domain itself physically
to us and get hosting to keep everything in on
place?
First step is you go to our domains website HERE
and open an account to login into the domain portal.
Once you created the account click on transfer
on the top right side.
Please make sure the admin contact email is an
active email because an email will be sent to
this email to approve the transfer. You can find
out that email this is by doing a WHOIS HERE If
that is not a current email please go to where
you registered the domain and update it.
If you ask, the domain still has 6 months or 2
years left before it expires, will I lose those?
the answer is NO you will not, when you do this
transfer it will add one year on TOP of the current
expiration date! So just add one year to when
it expires now!
Once you have processed this look out for an email,
approve it and just wait it out about 24-48 hours
for the whole process to occur, if you already
approved the email and you login into your domain
control panel and you see the process is not complete,
contact your registrar and ask them why they haven't
released it.
Meanwhile all this is happening feel free to buy
your hosting plan and upload all your files to
the server. Remember once you order hosting you
have immediate access to the server via the server's
hostname.
If you don't want to move your domain to us, you
don't have to. All you have to do is modify your
DNS follow the steps above. But remember that
your domain will expire at some point so it is
wiser to add years to the domain and not wait
until the last minute and risk losing your domain!
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