Five Steps to a Successful website Migration

 5 steps to a Successful website migration

1. Website Migration

2. Local backup creation

3. Site testing

4. Switch to the New Nameserver

5. DNS Propagation



1. Website Migration

Before the Migration, you will likely go through these three steps

Website Backup

Moving Website data

Test the new website

Migration of DNS These four steps are important and you should not cancel your existing service until you have fully migrated. If you old hosting provider does not engage in daily backups or delete them, you could find yourself losing your entire site. A good Migration should mean consistent site traffic. Not a sudden drop or decline.


2. Local Backup Creation

Local backup creation is one of the first things you should do during a migration. Your previous provider has backups of your website which are located on a third-party server.


3. Site Testing

Test your site before it goes live. Going to live without testing a site after a migration is not good and it becomes a risk. While there is a chance everything will work out well, sometimes there is also a chance something will go wrong.

The five major steps to check before completing your website Migration

Content Presence

Loading time

Loading behaviour

Site Links

Content rendering


4. Switch to the New NameserverUse # dig +short NS yoursite.com this command in your terminal to check the NS.

For eg: If you are using Oryon DNS service and have successfully re-pointed your domain, you can see at least one of those below.

ns1.oryon.net

ns2.oryon.net

ns3.oryon.net

The DNS changes will take 2 to 4 hours to reflect globally.


5. DNS Propagation

Once you have changed your DNS, you are going to want to let it complete propagation.

There is nothing worse than posting new content during the propagation cycle and you have lost it the next day.

If you are interested in checking the status of your DNS propagation, try https://dnschecker.org/ to see the propagation.

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