I have just moved my server to Host Gator, away from Dreamhost. Not because Dreamhost is bad, but speedtest Host Gator website and it seems much faster for me to load and I prefer cpanel. Another server which I had the last month was at Steadfast, it loads very slowly from Malaysia, but speedtest shows that it is the fastest among this three webhosting.
Changing webhosting is a pretty easy job for Wordpress. Here is the step by step instructions:-
- Download your domain directory
- Export your database (MySQL) from phpmyadmin
- Upload your domain
- Create your database & username (it does not need to be same as the old database)
- Upload database to you newlycreated username with phpmyadmin
- edit wp-config with your newlycreated username and password
- Add the nameserver of your new webhosting
- Delete them after a day or 2.
- Done!
Note: there may be some post / comments missing while you are doing step 7 & 8. This is because some of the post / comments went to the previous webhosting.
I did my own solution by editing some option on phpmyadmin with adding a ‘2′ behind my description. When I see the 2 appearing on my description, I know that that is the new webhosting server.
If you have any problems, let me know. I could try and help.
I use host gator. They Are awesome. Nice instructions.
i can’t say that they are better…since i have used them for only 2 weeks….but so far so good..no complaint
Host Gator is a good company, one thing happen to me with them recently is they offered me extra space I had been paying $50/monthly for for a one time flat fee of $150 I felt like I was being scammed sort of by Host Gator as I had paid the $50/monthly over 3 months…So when buying extra space be careful.
I will take note of that. Thanks