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Website Transfer (Part-1, Files and Folder backup)

Transfer Your Full Website to a New Hosting server

If your own a website, today or tomorrow your will face the problem with the hosting server and your will need to transfer your website to a new hosting. But you have no idea how to transfer a website ! Follow every steps of the article carefully, here I wills describe all the details in a very easy way.

There is two basic part or website transfer.

○ Firstly: Your have to Collect all the files and folder of your website from the old hosting.
○ Secondly: You have to collect a database backup from the mysql of your hosting.
○ Thirdly: You have to upload your files, database and configure you database with your files of the website     so that they can work properly.

Here lets starts with the Backup creating process of your website:

  • First login to your hosting and open the "File Manager". Here in the left panel your will find "public_html" Folder select it and you will find all the files and folder of your website if your website is in the root directory. If its not in the root you will find a folder named your domain you wants to transfer.
  • Select all the files or the folder of your domain you want to transfer and than click on the "Compress" from the top right side of the tool bar. Check the below picture for the preview of this.
Website Transfer
Files or Folder selection for compression 
After you press the "Compress" Button you will get another window to configure the compression. Here you have to select the compression file type, destination folder name and path. Here just select the " Zip Archive".  And start the compression.

compression file type, destination folder name and path
compression file type, destination folder name and path

  • After finishing the Compression you will get a archived file with the .zip extension added to your file manager. This is your full website files, just download this zip folder.

Now you successfully taken the full backup of all the files and folders of your website.

In the next two article I wills how your how to take database backup and how to upload and configure your files and database in the new hosting.

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