Changing Web Hosts ? Step-By-Step Guide

Every webmaster cringes at the thought of moving hosts. Like moving your home it can be messy and sometimes problems arise. But if you follow these simple steps, your move will be less painful.

Backup Backup Backup
If you’ve been diligent with your backups, you’ve got a lot of insurance to fall back on yet always make the latest backup. If you haven’t, before you do anything else, do a backup now. Backup anything and everything you can and don’t forget your database if your site relies on it. Save at least 2 copies and store them separately. One for you to work with, and the other as an archive. Do not underestimate how easy it is to copy over these files as you make changes or simply mess it up.

If you’re moving to a host who has as different control panel, make a manual backup by downloading all your files because different control panels may not be able to restore the backups made by your old host. They also have different directory structures so your file trees will be in a mess. If you need to, make a small note file with notepad with memos for you to remember the old server configurations. This will help you as you make changes on your new host server and save the confusion moving back and forth between hosts. Remember to make the correct transfer type (ASCII or Binary) as you download. If your download is not right chances are you’ll have a tough time getting your site to work on the new host server.

If server logs are especially important, remember to backup those too. There is no good way of moving logs yet because different hosts may log statistics differently. So the best thing to do is to download it and use a log analyzer on your computer to make references to later on.
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AJAXing the Web

AJAX is one of the hottest new technologies, in the ever growing universe of Web development. In this article, we’ll get to know how AJAX fits in a real-world situation and how you can assess its value in a project. Hopefully, by the time you finish reading this article, you’ll know what AJAX is, why, and how to use it.Nothing really new about what is happening here.

The normal routine in Web development involves requesting a file from the Web Server and receiving a page as response. So whats new with AJAX. Just that the difference, is that requests are being made from the Client side Java Script, which is embedded within HTML.

So what is AJAX ?

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