Best Practices for Switching from VPS to Singapore Dedicated Server
It’s very wonderful to see increasing traffic’s volume for your online business. It is necessary to get more hosting resources to maintain website performance smoothly and handle the traffic properly.
To maintain your website properly, you may need to upgrade your current web hosting plan. Sometimes it required to migrate your website from one type of web hosting to another type – ex. from a VPS to a dedicated server.
Here, you need to take care of few things for smooth functioning, minimum downtime and successful transfer to new hosting type.
Let’s look into the good practices to follow when switching from a VPS to a Singapore dedicated server.
1. Buy New Dedicated Server Plan but Don’t Cancel VPS Plan Immediately
First step is to buy new dedicated server plan to which you want to switch as per your website’s resource requirements. However, don’t cancel your old VPS plan until the migration is done, or else you may lose all your website data.
2. Check IP for Blacklisting
This is a very important point to consider. Check the IP address that you are getting with your dedicated server plan, because blacklisted IPs bring a lot of troubles in the functioning of your website, emails, etc. and getting them delisted from the blacklist is a very tedious task. So, always check and refrain from getting a blacklisted one.
3. Make no changes in the website during the switch
During the process of switching web-hosting from VPS to dedicated server make sure that no changes are made to your website content as this may result in losing the changes or updates made.
4. Take backup of website files & databases
It’s very important to take backup of your files and databases before moving them to your new dedicated server. It’s good practice and the backup turns out to be highly valuable in case of an unexpected event in which you may lose your important files.
5. Install all old web apps before uploading database files
Now, you need to upload your files and databases to your new Singapore dedicated server. For uploading, login to your new dedicated server with details provided by your hosting provider.
Normal files can be uploaded simply, but for uploading the database files, first you need to install all the web apps which used in earlier web hosting server and then use third party to upload the databases.
6. Add your email IDs to new dedicated server before switching DNS records
You must add your email IDs to your new Singapore dedicated server before the switching of DNS records. Use the temporary login information to login into your account and then add all your email IDs to the new dedicated server. As a best practice, you must create a “catchall” address to not lose any emails in case you missed out some of the email accounts..
7. Test website thoroughly
After making switch old VPS to the new dedicated server, it’s time to test your website for proper and smooth functioning. During testing, make sure that all the images and links on your website are working properly and the performance of your website is up to your satisfaction.
8. Update DNS
A final step, after completing testing and being satisfied with its performance, you need to change the DNS records. After this, you must wait for 24-48 hours for successful propagation of DNS records.
After successful propagation of DNS, you can cancel your old VPS account as your website is working fine on your new Singapore dedicated server.










