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I recently moved house, and one day whilst I was packing things away I had inspiration for a post. At the time, I couldn’t write it down as my PC was packed away ready for the move. So here I am now, about a week later and the thoughts of this post are still whizzing around in my head.

Moving house and moving hosts, whilst two completely different things, do have some similarities.

Packing things away / Backing up your files
The first major thing you do when moving house is packing all of your things. This is comparitive to downloading and backing-up all of your files on your host. You would put files into different folders, just as you would put different home-items into different boxes. You’d create relevant names to what is in the box/folder so you know exactly where to put things.

Making sure you’ve got everything
I lost count of the amount of times I went in to each room to check I’d gotten everything. It is the same when moving hosts. I always double-check I’ve downloaded the correct version of a site, and make sure I’ve backed it up to a CD or a USB Stick, and then I always load the files from the CD/USB Stick just to make sure it’s the correct site, and the correct files.

Up to 48 hours to complete
Depending on where you’re moving to it can take up to 48 hours to move. Getting everything into your new house takes time and effort and you want to do it carefully. When moving hosts you need to make sure you’ve changed the DNS settings, IPS Tags, nameservers etc. and to do all this you have to do it carefully too. A domain name won’t transfer hosts if you mispell any of those things. The moving of a host, just like moving house, will take up to 48 hours to complete (or longer depending on your situation).

Putting things into your new house / Uploading to your new host
The last transition. Getting everything into your new house and making it look like home is like uploading files to your new server. You make sure everything is perfect in your new house, and you’d make sure everything is perfect on your new host.

Whilst this post doesn’t provide any useful information, I hope you enjoyed reading it, and if you can think of any other similarities with this or any aspect of web design, feel free to comment away!

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