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So many times hosting companies disappoint their clients up to the point that they want to switch to another company. But the result of that switch can be so disastrous, as the client may end up being offline for many days or even weeks. Switching your hosting company without going offline is very simple but has to be done very carefully.

There might be so many other ways that one can switch from one host to another, but the suggestion below is what I tested so many times and proves very efficient.

1. Before switching, first sign up with another hosting company, some hosting companies provides the option to just host your domain, i.e. you don't need to register or transfer an existing domain, while some companies give free domain as part of their packages and you must choose a domain, so if must choose domain to proceed you can register a new domain which is similar to yours e.g. if you have nairaland.com you can choose to register nairaland.+net with the package or choose the transfer option. Otherwise just sign up for a hosting account without any domain name.

2. After your new account becomes active, download all the files in your old account and upload them to the new account, DO NOT DELETE your files in the old account, make sure everything in the old account remains intact.

3. Use PhpMyAdmin or another MySQL manager to export the database in your old account and Import it to your new account do not change anything.

4. Now, this is the trickiest part and where most people get lost and jump in to downtime, DO NOT Switch your Nameserver (NS) to your new hosting account yet, run the website located in your new account and make sure it is running properly, you can run the website from the root using IP address and directories the website is located in.

5. If you are 100% sure your website is active on the new hosting account, then now you can change the Nameservers to that of your new hosting account, but again DO NOT DELETE your files in the old account, make sure everything in the old account remains intact.

6. Allow like 24 hours after changing the nameservers, then make some changes in the new hosting account, a change can be anything, from changing a color to adding something like "We have moved to a new hosting company". Run the website and see if the changes you made appeared. If it appears, then you can safely delete your files from the old hosting account.

All the above is done without even 1 minute downtime, your website visitors will not even noticed anything that happened unless of course if you informed them that you have moved.

I hope this will help some webmasters, especially those jumping from one hosting company to another looking for a better service.

We have just finished upgrading our website amtechost.com and would like Nairalanders to comment about it and give suggestions where possible.

We were thinking of another round of free domain as we did previously, but this time we will do it differently, and it will be announced soon.

Just an update: We have 99.99% industry uptime record for the past 3 years, its worth celebrating actually, the support system is superb, one of the best in the industry.

All being said, I do hope you will find time to visit and comment here.

Thank you so much.

AmtecHost will move your website free of charge when you host your new website with us. You can also transfer your domain name to us at a reasonable amount. Just check our website amtechost.com and you will find more information about us.

@excelboi,

Once again thank you for participating. We hope you will enjoy our services.

If you are interested in hosting your domain with us please visit amtechost.com and choose one of the many hosting packages we have.

I will appreciate if you can acknowledge the receipt of your domain to Nairalanders and rate our services.

Thank you.

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Is that you?

@Excelboi, I never get your email till now.

@Excelboi, I think Nairaland's messaging is not working yet. So just send us an email.
Thank you.

You can be friends with us here on Nairaland, we can do the registration right now!

I have just sent a friend request. I hope it will allow us exchange private messages. If not please send an email now to amtechost@gmail.com or sales@amtechost.com

@Excelboi, Congratulations!
You can mention the domain you will like to register right here, right now!

AND THE WINNER IS EXCELBOI He answered

Excelboi: B... Multimedia

right before

Ticklishmummy: The answer should be Multimedia

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To Chillaz an Interactive website can be any website you can have a link on, and takes you to another page. So technically every site you go on is interactive.
Thank you for responding!!!

chillaz: C..Interactive

Thanks Chillaz! Noted

2 minutes remaining!

Ticklishmummy: The answer should be Multimedia

Excelboi: B... Multimedia

Thanks for responding! Answers well noted!

5 minutes to go.

Less than 15 minutes!!! No single answer

Less than 30 minutes!!!

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Last Year we offered 3 free domain names, and we got only 1 winner because people though it was a joke, like the winner said;

emeka.D.:
thanks @amtec,

@all, you all think this guy is jokin right, well, HE IS NOT!

This Year, we are asking 1 question, and offering 1 Free domain to 1 lucky winner THIS VERY NIGHT!.

Closes exactly by 12:00AM GMT +1.

The Question is as follows;

A page on a computer containing text, graphics, sound, and video clips can be described as

(a). animated
(b). multimedia
(c). interactive

The first person to answer this correctly will get a free domain name with the following terms and conditions;

* First person to answer the question correctly win 1 domain name of his/her choice
* Competition ends 12:00AM 30/03/2012
* Winners will have full access to the control panel for managing his/her domain name.
* Domain name will be registered for 1 year only
* Domain name is subject to availability
* Winner will be published here on this thread
* Answer to be posted here on Nairaland.com on this thread
* Nairaland Members Only!!!

1 hour 30 minutes remaining, tik tok tik tok

Happy Nairalanding!

emeka.D.:
thanks @amtec,

@all, you all think this guy is jokin right, well, HE IS NOT!

You are most welcome!

2 more domains to go.

hi

am mailling in respect of your free domain name post on nairaland, hope the offer is still availlable

the answers are

1.B
2.C
3.D

The only winner

And you mean

What you can do with the free domain

You can HOST it with many free hosting providers from all over the world and start building your website all for Free, example of these Free Web Hosts are 50webs.com. You will get everything you need to start your very own first website.

The Domain to be won have the following extensions; .com, .net, .org, .co.uk, and some 20 other popular Top Level Domains (TLDs).

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Its going to the next round.

Don't you guys know the simple answers? Is the Price too small

Amtec Host is giving out 3 Free Domain Names to 3 Lucky Winners to Win Today!

Just Answer this simple questions:

1. Who was the first person to invent personal computers?
a. Bill Gates
b. Steve Wozniak
c. Michael Steven
d. Palo Alto

2. Websites can have the following extensions except
a. .PHP
b. .HTML
c. .C++
d. .HTM

3. Nairaland Forum was created in which year?
a. 2003
b. 2004
c. 2005
d. none of the above

RULES/CRITERIA/PRIZE

* All questions must be answered correctly
* First 3 People that answered all questions correctly win 1 domain each of their choice
* Competition ends today midnight
* Winners will have full access to the control panel for managing their domain names.
* Domain names will be registered for 1 year only
* Domain name is subject to availability
* Winners will be published here on this thread, and answers will be explained!
* Nairaland Members Only!!!

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atampakoeg:
Abeg, nobody should follow this man. Never drop out of school, no matter what.

Just to mention few, Bill Gates of Microsoft and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook are all college drop-outs. There are so many things that necessitate dropping from College. You hardly spend a day or two without following these people (Using your Windows OS to surf Facebook).