There may be many reasons for you to want to sell your website. If you are confused about how to transfer your website to its new owner, this article will be of help to you. Here are step by step instructions on what to do.
– It is important that you know your buyer, at least some information about him. Your buyer’s domain name registrar is important. In case the domain name registrar is the same as yours, you can save some money in the process. Otherwise, you may have to shell out $8 to $10 for transferring the domain name of your website to a new owner.
– The name of his hosting service is also important. This is important because in case you face any trouble during the transferring process, you can very well contact their customer support for help.
– Transferring the data that is present in your website to its new owner is the next step in the process. The first thing that gets transferred is your data and the last thing is the DNS records. It is recommended that the site that is being sold is not set up as a primary domain. There are many reasons for that. You will have difficulty in transferring your site if this happens
– Before starting the transfer of your file, it is important for you to backup your data. There are many back up services of websites available. Use one which produces the smallest database sizes.
– Next, install your hosting platform on the new web host. You can do it as a sort of a clean installation or you may copy all the files, whatever you prefer. A clean install is however highly recommended as with copying the files there may be a certain problem and you will find it difficult to find the root cause of it. In a clean installation, you will find the root cause of the problem then and there.
– After the installation and configuration is done, the content folder has to be copied and pasted from the old host to the new host. Now all the content and settings have been transferred well and fully.
– The next step to transfer your website to a new owner would be to change the DNS servers. All you have to do for this would be to go to your domain name register and change the DNS server data.
– The next step is to wait for quite a few hours to let the DNS propagate. After this process gets complete, there is every chance that your website will be visible on the new server.
– No matter which web host you use, the process of transferring one’s website to a new owner remains almost the same. The basics will remain the same.
With a little tech savvy and patience, there is no reason why selling and transferring your website to someone and thereby making a good profit should not be a wonderful occupation for you.