What is involved in moving an existing website and e-mail accounts to Summersault?
This document discusses the processes and issues involved in moving an existing website hosted by a third party to Summersault’s hosting services. If you need to move your account from Summersault to a third party, see this entry instead. Introduction In this discussion, we assume a number of things: • That you have reviewed Summersault’s hosting packages and have found a package that offers features equal or greater than your current hosting arrangement. • That you or your organization has legal ownership of your current/old hosting account, and can authoritatively request that changes be made to it, including that it be shut down. • That you have filled out a hosting setup request (from the form on the bottom of the page for the hosting package you’re choosing) to initiate the site setup with Summersault. There are four main components of a hosting setup that need to be independently dealt with as a part of moving a site to Summersault’s hosting services: • The DNS / domain registrat