How To Switch WebHosts Without Having Any Down Time

I have decided to move some of my websites from bluehost to HostGator to reduce the load on my bluehost account.

I came across this article from HostGator on switching webhost without having down time.

http://www.HostGator.com/moving.shtml

Basically the steps are:

1) Find and join a new webhost (i.e. HostGator)

2) Download the entire site from your old webhost and upload them to your new webhost.

3) Now that you have all files on both hosting accounts, change the domain name dns to the one provided by your new webhost.

4) Wait for 24-48hrs for your domain name dns to update. Usually your site will load from the new host after 24hrs.

5) After the dns has updated and loading from your new host host, you have successfully switch host without any down time!