Hosting Company Move???

[losercore]

Who has switched hosting companies?

I am really nervous about this. I have a site at Godaddy that has not made a penny in months but is paid for for a year. I have another site and I am getting charged $8 a month for the hosting that is really limited.

I want to move this to my Godaddy.

The good newsi s that the domain was registered with Godaddy so it's there in my domain name to switch. My questions are simple I hope.

1. Will I get any negatives via search engines by switching/ PR?
2. Do I have to tell my current host to switch or stop DNS?

Also anything else those of you have done this have encountered.

Thanks

[indieangler]

loserscore,

1. You shouldn't get any negative effects from the search engines unless you have lots of downtime during the switch. You want to make sure to minimize downtime to hopefully where the site will never actually stop working for any amount of time (even a few minutes, but this still won't kill you). The search engines really could care less (for the most part) about where your website is being hosted.

2. I don't really understand this part of the question...you'll need to change the DNS information on the domain name to point to the server it will be hosted on.

On a side note....GoDaddy web hosting isn't very great. It's fairly cheap and may seem easy to use but it gives you fairly limited server access and is generally considered to be poor quality hosting, IMHO.

Colin

[losercore]

Thanks Colin,

Yea I will agree that Godaddy is not the best choice but it is paid for at the moment

I've had good luck with Godaddy so far with other sites although I do plan on switching them next year.

Thanks again for your help.