Changing Hosts

Does anyone have a best practice guide to changing hosts? I.e. step 1 ... Step 2 ...?

Would be really helpful - taking on a new client that's social events organiser for "career-minded people".

First get them to change hosts
then I redisign the site
then get them to do affiliate marketing

just stuck on step one though!!!

Ahhhh - don't do it too much hassle. lol

Thought i'd point out the obvious.

make sure the site is working OK on new host before changing the domain name. Tell visitors the site will be down at a certain time. Preferably over night. Make sure names are on your nameservers send the names over.

But you probably know thats stuff

Get the site working on the new host, make sure they old host is paid up to date for at least a week so you can run both at same time, update DNS and you will have no downtime if you done that.

Thing to check with your new host is that they actually added your domain into the nameservers before you move, you can check that online here www.ip-plus.net/tools/dig...et.en.html

All that is based on a static site, if it's database driven and updates on it's own, good luck to you

I moved host last Saturday and I made sure my new host would allow me to ftp sites before I changed DNS. (I am not sure if all do this)

The old host is still getting some hits and I'm not entirely sure why the DNS hasn't all sorted itself out yet, but I can live with it I think.
I have recently posted in a search engine ng about any SE consequences of this ... will update if there are.