Accessing Services at OA5 / YASK / Irial: How do I transfer a domain from another ISP

	Accessing Services at OA5 / YASK / Irial : Transferring from another ISP : How do I transfer a domain from another ISP
	The problem with moving an existing site is achieving a transition without loss of service. Your site is currently on another ISP's servers, You may on may not have a copy of the site on your PC. Let's assume you don't, because you can simply skip the first bit if you have.
	Your site is www.yourdomain, and all the files and folders are on your current ISP's server. The first thing you have to do is copy your site onto your PC. If you use Macromedia dream-weaver or Hotmetal to manage your site, or ws-ftp to copy it, it is relatively simple to copy the whole structure. Details of how to access your site will be available from your current ISP.
	Once you have copied your site to your local system, please contact OA5.com. We will create an account on our server which you can use to upload your site again. At this point your site will still point to your old server, so you can take your time to copy all your data onto your OA5.com server, as the old site will continue to work. Once everything is copied we will then change the DNS. At this point your new site will gradually go live over a period of some hours, as the DNS changes become visible. It takes a while because systems are allowed to cache old answers for a while.
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	supportAToa5DOTcom
	2002-Jun-08 14:35

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