Moving my hosting company

tkowebworks

New Member
Hello,

I would like to move one of my clients site to a hopefully better hosting company.

Will it affect their current website if I create a subdomain for them for now for this site on this new hosting, while their site is still on the main domain on the other hosting.
Can I just rename the sub domain to the main domain?

So i have www.theirsite.com at xyz hosting
Creating new site on www.theirsite.com/subname at 123 hosting
Once I am finished with the new site on the sub is it easy to move that to www.theirsite.com and just cancel the old hosting?

Thanks as always for your help or opinions :)
 

stach14

New Member
Yes you can do things this way. It is kind of like adding extra steps though. It would be simple to just signup for the new hosting account, upload everything and get new hosting site ready to go live, then update DNS. People will go to old site until they get the update and then start going to new site. No downtime and 48 hours later you can cancel the old hosting.

Keep in mind if you go this sub directory route and use wordpress, it is very tricky and a pain to convert back to a standalone website.
 
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