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<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you are currently with another hosting provider and you wish to switch, we welcome you onboard!</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">How to do the migration?</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Step 1: Sign up for a webhosting account</span></strong></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Your first step should be to <a style="color: #b30000;" href="http://www.twopiz.com/order.php">sign up</a> for a hosting package with us. Once your account is activated you can move on to step two, but remember that you should not cancel your old web hosting services or inform your old host that you are moving until you have backed up your files and your domain name has been transferred or repointed.</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Step 2. Back Up Your Data</span></strong></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is important to ensure that you have a full backup of your web hosting account before you get ready to move. Be sure to write down any extra information you will need such as your e-mail account settings, MySQL authentication details, passwords and so on.</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Step 3. Migrating your data files</span></strong></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">At this point you should be ready to start uploading your website to your new Twopiz webhosting account, you can either let us do it for you or do it yourself.</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1) Contact us to perform the migration on your behalf at no charge</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">To engage us to perform the migration, kindly provide us the following information.</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Your existing webhosting control panel information (if any) <br />Login URL: <br />Username: <br />Password:</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Your FTP details<br />Hostname:<br />Username:<br />Password:</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The email accounts you want to transfer (if any) <br />Email address: <br />Email password (your previous host): <br />Email address: <br />Email password (your previous host):<br />Email address: <br />Email password (your previous host):<br />As many as you have</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Note: We will create the email account in your Twopiz hosting account with the same login information</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Database login information (if any) <br />Filename/s that contain/s database connection information<br />Database dump files / sql files or database access information</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />2) Do it yourself</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Upload all of your files using FTP with the IP address specified in your welcome e-mail and setup all databases, email accounts and configuration options via cPanel (Your new webhosting account control panel). Once done you can test your website by visiting the temporary URL, which can also be found in your welcome e-mail. Download all your emails from your old host.</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Step 4. Updating Your DNS Nameservers</span></strong></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You should have received your DNS name servers information in the welcome email. Update your name server information at your registrar to the following:</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ns1.twopiz.com <br />ns2.twopiz.com</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We will take care of this step for you if you are registering a domain with us or transferring your domain name to us from another registrar.</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It takes about 6 to 48 hours for a domain name to propagate worldwide (every ISP receive an update on your website move). For any further assistance feel free to contact us, we will be happy to update your name servers for you.</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Step 5. That's All!</span></strong></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">After approximately 48 hours, having confirmed your website is accessible online at its new location, you can now terminate your previous webhosting account.</span></span></p>
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