Top Reasons for Migrating Your Website into a Bigger Server
What are the top reasons people migrate their websites to a new web server?
Having a successful website. Usually, web server migration has to do with the website getting too much traffic or too many visitors to the site (exceeding the capabilities of your existing hosting plan) – often the result of having a lot of website success. When a number of visitors attempt to concurrently hit your website pages and visit them, the traffic can result in the pages not being available. In turn, this can lead to a message that basically says the server is busy.
Need for more resources. This has to do with the number of processes that your webhost allows to run concurrently. It’s important to know how many processes are included as part of your webhosting package, because if you have a number of visitors to your website, and each of them is utilizing the website – for instance, if you have a ecommerce shopping cart and a database such as MySQL, or a membership website (e.g., social network, content management system, CRM, etc.) – every visitor using the product database or member database goes through the processes and eats up your available resources on your server.
This situation can be equated with your home’s power supply. If you only have so much electricity in your house, then you can only have so many appliances running, because otherwise, you’ll basically blow a fuse. That’s the same kind of thing where you only have so many processes that can be used, and typically, web hosting accounts offer packages with a limited number of processes. System administrators can look at the health of your server to help you determine resource use and the need for migrating your website.
Need for more reliable email. Again, as a website grows to be more successful as a result of ecommerce, social networks, email campaigns, website owners will often have problems with email. Investing well in talented companies that provide search engine programming, submission, and optimization can increase your number of new client inquiries and you can become a victim of your own success. This is usually due to web hosting space availability on the web server as well as details that have to do with the available processes, including access to the processes in order to process email. So, as the email volume goes up, email can be less reliable.
Need for greater features. One important reason for migrating or upgrading one’s web hosting pack has to do with the availability of greater features. It may be that your current host does not offer a particular feature which you have come to require after a certain period. You then need to find a better web hosting package which has great features and everything, from CRM, content management systems, social network packages, website analytics, forums, bulletin boards, better control panels, ecommerce, tools for search engine programming, submission, and optimization, cron jobs abilities, and a number of different turnkey applications.
Upgrading or Migrating Your Website from a Shared Hosting to a Virtual Private Server (VPS)/Managed Private Server (MPS)
I think one of the best advantages of migrating your website from a shared hosting to a VPS or MPS is the ability to get shell access for your web designers, website engineers, system administrators, and system engineers. Shell access is great because it allows your web designers or web engineers to create more robust applications and to quickly and efficiently set up or write new scripts or write new scripts without having to rely upon tech support for the hosting companies. This translates to savings in the way of being able to write scripts or develop applications in less time, allowing for a rapid development of applications and websites and website code.
Migration Planning: Tips for Migrating Websites
It’s important to know that before you migrate a website, there is a very extensive process assessment that must take place prior to the actual migration, and that’s known as a migration planning phase.