Hi, I was wondering how you can transfer to a different host? same like For example i wish to sell a website to someone. What are the things needed? How do i give him/her the the website content? Do i just copy all the files on my "file manager" and put it in a folder and just send it to him/her?
Hi thanks! but are you sure about this? like if i transfer to a new host or backup the files to give it to the buyer. my sites SERP's won't be affected? my site uses wordpress and godaddy hosting. would greatly appreciate if anyone knows how?
that is the only way you can transfer the site. search engine dont bother about your hosting company unless you have same domain and links intact nothing will happen.
The transfer would affect your google rank since there would be some downtime. If you have shell access, you can take a backup through ssh and migrate it.
If you want to only sell a website to someone, are you selling the domain as well or only the contents? If the latter, make a backup of your database and forum/website files and give them to the one who will buy your site content. To move to a different host, make first a thorough backup of your db, then upload all your webiste/forum files from your old server space to your pc. Create a new db at your new host and restore there the db. Then upload the website/forum files from your pc to the new server space and edit the db details at your config.php file, assuming you are using vbulletin. If you are using another system you must do that at whaever file that system uses to store the db connection info. Hope it helps.
After you get paid you give the buyer access to the CP of your host and for the admin account of your forum/access and they will take it from there. You might want also to change your personal info there first.
After you get paid, you can take a full backup of your site and create one url of that backup so that buyer can get it downloaded easily.