Moving Your Website to Sheer Web Host

How to transfer your website to Sheer Web Host with little or no downtime!

For Existing Websites

The only requirement is that you DO NOT DELETE your current Web hosting account or change the domain nameservers (DNS) until your new account with Sheer Web Host is set up. Follow these steps:

Establish a hosting account with us. You'll then be able to access your new account using the info you'll get in your Welcome e-mail. Start uploading your files to your domain folder through FTP or any other site publishing software (FrontPage, Dreamweaver, etc.).

If moving Cart32, export your cart settings (Log into your existing/old cart. Click the File tab and then click the Export Client Data button. Follow the instructions to export your cart settings to a text file. After you see the gauge indicating 100%, save the file to your hard drive and e-mail it to cart32@sheerwebhost.com.

In your Welcome e-mail, you'll get a temporary link to access your NEW web site before anything goes live. Verify that everything is working on the new site (graphics, web pages, shopping cart, links, etc.)

Once verified, go to your registrar and change your nameservers/DNS to the ones mentioned in your setup e-mail.

Your site will be updated WORLDWIDE within 24 to 72 hours. Note: although you may be able to see your site on your new server within 12 hours or less, please allow a complete 72-hour cycle before you delete your old host account.

Enjoy your new site @ Sheer Web Host. If you have any problems during the transfer, please submit a support ticket from your control panel. Let us know what you've done so far, and we'll help you finish it up. And if you do it all yourself, drop us a line and let us know if you love the speed ...

For New Websites

Establish a Web hosting account with us.

After your payment is verified, you should get your Welcome e-mail very soon. In it will be all the usernames / passwords that give you access to the server. Proceed to upload your files to YOUR DOMAIN FOLDER and MAKE SURE YOU RENAME YOUR HOMEPAGE "index.html" (all lower case). Then use the temporary link provided in the e-mail to view your site.

Once everything is working, go to your registrar (the site where you registered your domain name).

In your setup e-mail(s) there will be a pair of DNS or nameservers. Change your domain's nameservers to those DNS. If you don't have a domain control panel (that is where you usually do these changes) please e-mail your registrar or call them and ask them to change your name servers to the ones in your setup e-mail from us.

After the DNS changes has been made, your domain will now begin to point to your server with Sheer Web. This will take 24 to 72 hours to resolve along the whole world, as every ISP updates their DNS at different times.

If after 48 hours you can't access your domain via www.yourdomain.com, do a whois search on your domain name and make sure your name servers show up as those provided in your Welcome e-mail. If not, contact your registrar right away to have it corrected.