How to see your site on another host before actually changing the DNS settings at your registrar. Did you know that you could see if everything is working fine on the new host (when you need to transfer a domain) by playing with your host file on your PC ? For instance on Windows 7, you open your host file located at: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts So if you site was facebook.com and your new host ip would be ex: 123.123.123.123 Well you would change 0.0.0.0 to 123.123.123.123 then save the file and reload a fresh copy of your browser. You can also add more than one domain/line in the host file. So it could like this 123.123.123.123 yoursite.com 123.123.123.123 yoursite2.com 123.123.123.123 yoursite3.com and so on Hope it helps