[Work At Home]

I would like to transfer to hostgator next month. In order to have zero downtime, I need to disable my databases and create A record (direct server) to my website. How to do these 2 things?

Anyone has transferred to Hostgator, do you mind to share your experience?

[judsonsolomon]

As for my site, it's a simple and smooth transference.

Here are the steps....
1) I Sign Up for a Hostgator Account. I jist use the domain name of my current website.

2) Once my account had been setup I used support ticket to let them know that I wanted to transfer my website from another host. They sent me information of what to do to the next.

3) I contacted Host4Profit and asked them for access to my domain name settings. They gave me a login to eNom.com.

4) I login to eNom.com using the username and password that Host4Profit had given me. I click on the Domain Name Servers setup (DNS) and entered the two Hostgator name servers. By then my domain was pointed to their server.

5) I provided them(HostGator) Host4Profit's login information for them to use it for transfering eveything. Normaly I gave tham all the information from Host4Profit's welcome letter.

The transfer took about 48 hrs to accomplish.

[Work At Home]

great! thanks for the info.