What 5 Steps to follow successful website migration?

 What 5 Steps to follow successful website migration? These things need to be consider to do migration , Domain Ownership and Transfer If you have decided to move your hosting account from one to another provider, likely Godaddy to Oryon, you need to decide if you wish to switch the domain name registrar. These are 2 scenarios you need to consider: Switching Domain Registrar – This is a fuss-free method if you allow Oryon to handle all aspects of your website or web application. Basically you need to pay to Oryon in the future for the domain name renewal / management and let Oryon handle everything instead of paying to a provider such as Godaddy for domain name and Oryon for hosting. Using the same Domain Registrar – If you want to stay with your current domain name provider, you should update the nameservers with the provider to Oryon nameservers so that the domain name can use our services. Oryon nameservers are given below: 1.ns1.oryon.net 2.ns2.oryon.net 3.ns3.oryon.net If you decide to switch domain name registrar to Oryon, it may take 5 to 7 days to complete. I will recommend migrating the account only after the domain name transfer has been completed. Back Up Your Website Using cPanel Many web hosting companies use cPanel, a user-friendly, control panel frontend with many push-button options. cPanel backups are manual backups, Log into your site's cPanel control panel. Enter the "Files" section → click Backup. Press --> Download a Full Website Backup. The options to do partial backups which include the home directory/SQL databases. This is particularly useful, as it shortens the download times associated with large database backups. Choose "Home Directory" as your backup destination, and then enter an email address so that you can receive a notification after the backup is done. Click --> Generate Backup" to start the backup process. Click --> Go Back. You could see a link that shows "Backups Available For Download. From that, you can download the archive file for backup. WordPress-backed websites require an extra step. In the "Databases" section, click "phpMyAdmin" and then select your site’s database. Click "Export." Finally, on the next page, click "Go" to download the SQL file. This is not an automated backup method. You should manually execute a backup on a regular basis. First, you want to find out the database name assigned to your WordPress. For that, go to your File manager > Website folder. We can see that public_html for the main domain or a website name folder in the home directory. Open the file named as wp-config.php. Next then, navigate back to the main cPanel menu > PHPmyAdmin Once there, click on the name of the database that you figured out in the previous step. In a new window сhoose ‘Export option’ from the upper panel: On the next page, you can choose the export method and format. Then, the database is exported and you are ready to move on to the new host. Transferring from old to New Host With the files and database being exported from your old hosting, further move on to transferring them to the new hosting provider. Importing Files to new cPanel The step is do to Upload and Extract the Archive to the new cPanel of old hosting provider. Make sure that you upload the archive with data to the cPanel of yours > File manager > the directory of your website, select the archive and extract the files. You should do it both directly using cPanel or if the file size is very big, you may switch to SSH or FTP options. Click on the Extract when you have uploaded the archive. Additional Step: Create Addon Domain Note these tip: If you like that moving a website to a cPanel where there already are living websites and it’s not set as the main domain for the account, you will need to add this domain in the cPanel > Addon domains option. In these senario, the directory for the website (namely as Document root).