God. I don’t think anyone understands the complexity of moving webhosts… especially if you actually have a lot of content on your existing site. I currently host like 5 different domains; what a pain in the ass this is going to be. Most webhosts provide a free service to move it all for you, but the thought of having someone rummaging around in my site files is a little unnerving. Pain in the ass or not, I want to do it myself… plus this gives me a chance to clean up a bit.
I started off by moving my primary domain (foszor.com) and getting that all setup. I updated the DNS last night and today it had already fully propagated. I totally spaced setting up my email information at first… I wonder how much email I missed out on. Who cares, I don’t feel like buying viagra anyways.
With all these issues, why did I change hosts?. Simple answer: my previous provider sucked the largest of dicks. The cPanel was wacky, the support was… well decent at best, but the best support is support you don’t need to use (meaning the site just works the way it should work). Most importantly, everyone (yes including me) had page load time issues. Sometimes it was just really slow, or failed to connect, or loaded the text and images took forever.
I don’t how some companies survive with poor management like that.
Edit:
Shit I’ve already had a few moments where the page wouldn’t load… hopefully it was on my end or maybe because I recently changed the DNS. *crosses fingers*