If you are a regular reader of my blog perhaps you have noticed that once again I have been slightly absent from regular posting, to say the least! And while I hope Monika provides you with enough information to digest and act upon I wanted to provide a quick explanation…

While I can’t provide full details just yet… for multiple reasons, I had to work over last month on checking, configuring, testing and now migrating bulk of my sites, blogs and business sites to a new host that would allow me create a more controlled, stable and easily expandable environment.

If you are a frequent reader of my blog or one of my customers perhaps you have noticed that since Monday afternoon till about 4 PM yesterday most of my “known” and business associated sites we not accessible.

Reason for this is simple – my DNS registrar screwed up big time by misunderstanding my request and making changes on my account, which due to other technical issues they experience I was unable to undo. This one mistake resulted in over 12 hours outage to my business sites! And as result of this one I have a lessons learned I want to share…

In this post i want to share a details on how to move WordPress to new host, Hostgator in this specific case, with 0 down time. Information provided is based on my recent personal experience of relocating my WordPress blog from Site5 hosting account to Hostgator and ensuring that I had no outage period and yet was able to verify that entire process worked without a glitch.

There are several steps to this process and each requires verification to ensure that everything will function properly but once you get them all right – you will ensure that your visitors will not be impacted during your move and if you rely on your blog as income source, I think it is very important. Not only does it allow your to reduce any nuisance but also avoid unprofessional appearance during your move of WordPress blog to new host.

This is more of an internal note then anything else and my quick apologies to anyone who has a different experience while accessing my blog. This morning I started and now just about completed move of this blog to my hostgator account.

I got to so fed up with increasingly poor support and stability from Site5 hosting aver the period of last 2-3 month that I’m moving everything off of their servers. I have also removed this hosting from the list of my recommendations. Don’t take me wrong – they USED TO have one of the best options available and what you get for your money is probably still the best but their support is gone to sh*t.

So there you have it – an explanation on why you might have seen a few glitches this morning …