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This has been a learning experience

They say experience is the best teacher, and changing web hosting services has easily proven just how much truth there is to that old adage.

When I decided to switch web hosting services, I thought it would be a simple task, with the new web hosting service guiding me, and essentially doing most of the heavy lifting, so to speak.

Well they certainly guided me, but they didn't do any of the heavy lifting.

But what is so exasperating is there really isn't much heavy lifting, and the process isn't that difficult, provided you have all the necessary information before starting the process. It also helps to understand all the terminology involved in domain hosting.

I only wish I knew then, what I know now!

The most important thing I learned is make sure you know who your domain registrar is, and how to log on to yhe registrars website to update all your domain information, including name, address and especially what nameservers (DNS) your domain is pointed to.

Determining your registrar is easy. Simply go to Whois.Net, and type in your domain name. There you will find all sorts of information, including your registrar, your name, and most importantly the domain name servers (DNS).

The harder part is learning how to log on to your registrars site, to update any data. That can be difficult, because it is not unusual for the actual registrar to be different from the registrar referenced in the Whois database. Still all that means is you will need to make an additional call or send an additional email to get that information.

It really is that simple.

One final point, you don't have to transfer your registrar, something I recommend you don't do, unless you're going to save yourself a bunch of money.

I actually knew that, but because of some terminology confusion, and my frustration getting my nameservers pointed to my new web hosting services, I inadvertently did just that.

Still, even that isn't insurmountable, since I did save some money, but what it did do was lock my domain, so now I can't change my name servers until the transfer is complete.

So as you might surmise, the transfer of my website to the new hosting service is still not complete, and may not be for another 5 days, until the transfer of my domain name to my new registrar is complete.

At least I finally know what is going on. so I don't feel so helpless.

Oh well, such is life. The only consolation is I did learn quite a bit, but if I had it to do all over again, I would just stay with my original web hoster.
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