One of the most difficult tasks in transferring your hosting business to a new provider is the actual transfer of the data and configurations itself.  While you most likely know how to download all the information required for your website, other considerations such as MySQL databases, email accounts and critical stored data may not be as easily accessible.  When you are selecting a new web hosting company you should ask for a quote on migrating all of your data from your current hosting account to your new one.

In order to receive a quote on what it will cost for this to happen, you will need to provide your new potential host with all of your logins as well as root level access information if you currently have it.  Someone from the technical support team will login to your current account to gather all the information they require to determine how long it will take as well how all your current services are configured.  Once they have all that information, the technical support or sales team will provide you with a quote for the migration process.

Should you decide to go ahead with using their services, the technical support team can begin the process of not only grabbing all the pertinent files and data but also configuring your new account so there will be no issues once it goes live.  All configurations including your email, ftp and MySQL accounts will be transferred over so in most cases there will be no password changes.  For the most part your visitors and employees should not notice any difference once you change your domain name servers and point all the traffic to your new hosting account.

By utilizing your new hosting providers technical support team to migrate your website and all its pertinent data, you will eliminate the headaches and any potential issues that transferring the website on your own may cause.