The Website (1)

The Website

A website is usually made up of one or two things:

  • Files (.htm, .html, .jpg, .gif, .php, etc)
  • Database(s)

The website (the files) is the easiest thing to move to your new web host. There are two steps:

  1. Download (via FTP) all the files from your current host, then;
  2. Upload (via FTP) all the files to your new host.



Next move onto the database(s)...Step 2 »

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