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If I Were You I Wouldn't Change Hosts

Simowatto

Published on November 28, 2016

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Oh guys what a hassle, If I were you I wouldn't change hosts. EVER, Seriously, I've gone through it all, but not as bad as one of my friends who I made here, I'll explain.....

Basically, I swapped host to an external one as my site was slow. I thought to heck with spending the money, I need it. But, what was supposedly meant to be a really simple process was anything but!!!!

At first everything was going well, the company basically informed me that I needed to contact the place where I bought my domain from and ask them to change the DNS (Domain name servers) from WA to their Go Geek servers. This is their top shared hosting package.

There was meant to be no downtime (where your site is offline whilst they transfer it and it propagates) But lo and behold there were two WHOLE DAYS OF IT :'(

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THEN I HAD THE FREE HTTPS (at the beginning of my domain name) and that was meant to make me rank higher. Maybe it is just because it is day two, but as yet that has made no difference.

Then there was there "Amazing" super cacher (Basically it speeds your site up) and that is yet to work on day three)

I feel a fool for even leaving WA hosting and potentially wasting my money.

If I were you I would not bother.

The friend that I alluded to earlier is Jimbo, and he has requested help from the exact same company and he is none the wiser as they are replying to with VERY technical talk. That's the thing with the tech' side of this, it is baffling and that's putting it mildly and these companies speak to us people who are trying to learn internet marketing, like we know all that stuff, ee I don't know.

The worst of it is over now but what a hassle it has been, but if I were you I WOULDN'T CHANGE HOSTS, it isn't worth the aggro.

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