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Guideline for a Smooth Website Migration Experience

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The process of website migration can be quite challenging if one is not aware of the risks involved and the precautions to take care of. In order to ensure minimum loss in website traffic and avert loss in the ranking of the website as well as to ascertain that the website does not have any technical errors and performs as expected, certain key points need to be taken care of which have been touched upon in this PPT. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Guideline for a Smooth Website Migration Experience


1
Guideline for a Smooth Website Migration
Experience
2
Table of Contents
  • Website Migration
  • Why Migrate a Website?
  • Web Hosting and Web Hosts
  • Risks Involved in Website Migration
  • Concern of Website Migration Process 
  • Why Website Migration Fails?
  • Smooth Website Migration Experience
  • Test the New Site and Retest
  • Make a copy of your website
  • Check site speed
  • Update DNS (Domain Name System) Settings
  • Test Redirects
  • Conclusion

3
Website Migration
  • Website migration is when a website experiences
    changes in the location, platform, layout,
    content, architecture, or in the user experience
    of the website and moves from one environment to
    another, or the domain name of a website changes.
    It occurs whenever a fundamental change takes
    place in a websites URL structure.

4
Why Migrate a Website?
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  • Usually website migration takes place when you
    are upgrading to a better form of hosting or you
    are moving to a new web host. Since you will be
    shifting your website from one server to another,
    there will be certain challenges and risks that
    you will face.

5
Web Hosting and Web Hosts
  • Web hosting is a professional service provided by
    web hosting companies in which server space is
    sold or leased for a websites files to be stored
    on it. The web host provides the service, server
    space and technology that is required in order to
    make a website accessible to everyone over the
    Internet.
  • Hosting can be- shared, dedicated, VPS, cloud,
    WordPress and Reseller. The hosting plans are
    offered for both Linux and Windows and termed
    accordingly. For example, Windows Reseller
    Hosting and Linux Reseller Hosting make it
    clear that a particular reseller hosting plan is
    meant for which operating system.

6
Web Hosting Companies
The market is full of web hosting companies. Some
of these have established themselves as the best
website hosting company or as the best Windows
hosting company. There are those hosts that
provide outstanding service in cloud hosting and
have earned the reputation of being the best
cloud server hosting provider or as the best
cloud hosting company. One must make an informed
choice while selecting the best option out of so
many.
7
Risks Involved in Website Migration
  • If the migration has not taken place properly
    then the website wont function correctly after
    that and will result in poor user experience.
  • There is also the risk of losing data during the
    migration.
  • There might not only be content loss but also
    stagnation or inflexibility in templates as well
    as in content.
  • If the migration had not been handled properly it
    will affect the websites performance on search
    engines leading to a loss in search engine and
    page ranking.
  • There is also the possibility for your site to be
    offline while fixing issues.
  • The possibility of experiencing a lengthy website
    downtime cant be ruled out.

8
Concern of Website Migration Process 
The main concern of website management is to
ensure minimum loss in website traffic and avert
loss in the ranking of the website.
9
Why Website Migration Fails?
This is a result of either one or a combination
of many factors, such as inadequate planning or
not having a proper checklist to follow. Lacking
awareness as well as knowledge related to the
process of website migration can also lead to
failures that had not been foreseen.
10
Smooth Website Migration Experience
Let us now take a look at certain points in the
following slides that will ensure a smooth
website migration experience.   The simplest yet
effective way is to not take down your existing
website until you are sure that your new website
is working properly. This will ensure that your
existing users do not get adversely impacted if
there are any issues.
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12
Test the New Site and Retest
Ensure that your website does not have any
technical errors and performs as expected by
testing it on the new servers. Run these tests on
both, desktop and mobile versions of the website
as well as on different types of browsers. This
testing should involve ensuring that all pages,
posts and links not only appear but also perform
properly. It should also be ascertained that the
users can carry out all the interactions offered
by the site including but not limited to
searches, navigation, making purchases and
signing into user areas. Retest the site when it
is live, to ensure that it is still working as
expected.
13
Make a copy of your website
When you copy your existing website and upload it
to your new server it enables you to test how
well it performs in its new hosting environment.
This will let you know if you need to make any
changes. You should do this on a different
domain or sub domain since you will want to keep
your existing website operational at the same
time. Retest the site when it is live, to ensure
that it is still working as expected.
14
Check site speed
Test the speed of the new site before launching
it and compare that with the existing site. You
want your new site to be crawled and indexed
quickly by Google. If the server is performing
well, this will happen swifter. You should check
the speed of both the mobile and desktop
versions. Accelerated site speed will ensure a
better user experience and improve your websites
overall ranking.
15
Update DNS (Domain Name System)
Settings
You need to ensure that users are visiting your
site once you are satisfied with its performance.
For this purpose you will need to change your DNS
settings. This will direct the new users to your
new IP address.
16
Test
Redirects
Test if the redirects enabled on your website are
still working on the new server and that there
are no 404 errors.
17
Conclusion
Website migration is an important step that can
be challenging when one lacks proper information
and is not aware of the risks involved and where
that might lead to. Once one is equipped with
knowledge, one can take all the necessary
precautions as well as steps to ensure that
migration turns out to be a smooth experience.
18
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