Many webmasters have bad web hosting experience with their website hosting providers' services. Some of hosting companies offer low-quality hosting services, such as lack of hosting bandwidth, too much downtime, non-professional customer support, etc. You want to switch your web hosting to a reliable hosting company. How to cancel your current web hosting account with hassle free? Here are the steps of canceling hosting package.
Save all websites to local computer
You need to download all your websites from your hosting server to your computer. This is the first step. You hosting provider may take down your websites at anytime if you tell them to close your account so that backup the websites. I see a post that the blogger talks about website cancellation without backup. He wants to download the websites and host them by Hostgator after he sent request of canceling hosing account to bluehost. But he cannot log into his account because bluehost already block the server access. He calls the customer support to solve the problem. Don't make the same mistake. I find the article that gives detailed steps of cancel hostgator package.
Cancel or transfer domain name
If your web hosting provider gives you a free domain or you registered a domain through the web hosting provider, cancel or move the domains. I know a guy who cancels a website hosting plan. But, he does not cancel the domain name that the hosting provider offered him when he signed the hosting plan. He got the domain name renewal bill a few months later after hosting canceled. He has to pay it because hosting account cancellation does not cancel the domain name. There are two separate services.
Delete all subscriptions and services other than hosting
If you have any paid services, such as site security, site backup, paid theme, etc, cancel them before cancel hosting plan. Some people forgot they have extra services from the website hosting provider so they just close the hosting plan. But, most web hosts keep the websites from canceled account for about another two months before they take the sites down from the server. Some companies still charge fees for such services. Close these extra services when you cancel the account.
Confirm the hosting canceled
Please always keep the record as a proof that you have sent a cancellation request to the web host. You can write an email to customer support or billing support for the hosting account cancellation. Hostgator asks the clients fill out canceling form through their website. You current web host must give you a confirmation through email to confirm they received your closing account request. This is the last step.
If you follow above steps to cancel your web hosting account, you will have peace of mind.
Save all websites to local computer
You need to download all your websites from your hosting server to your computer. This is the first step. You hosting provider may take down your websites at anytime if you tell them to close your account so that backup the websites. I see a post that the blogger talks about website cancellation without backup. He wants to download the websites and host them by Hostgator after he sent request of canceling hosing account to bluehost. But he cannot log into his account because bluehost already block the server access. He calls the customer support to solve the problem. Don't make the same mistake. I find the article that gives detailed steps of cancel hostgator package.
Cancel or transfer domain name
If your web hosting provider gives you a free domain or you registered a domain through the web hosting provider, cancel or move the domains. I know a guy who cancels a website hosting plan. But, he does not cancel the domain name that the hosting provider offered him when he signed the hosting plan. He got the domain name renewal bill a few months later after hosting canceled. He has to pay it because hosting account cancellation does not cancel the domain name. There are two separate services.
Delete all subscriptions and services other than hosting
If you have any paid services, such as site security, site backup, paid theme, etc, cancel them before cancel hosting plan. Some people forgot they have extra services from the website hosting provider so they just close the hosting plan. But, most web hosts keep the websites from canceled account for about another two months before they take the sites down from the server. Some companies still charge fees for such services. Close these extra services when you cancel the account.
Confirm the hosting canceled
Please always keep the record as a proof that you have sent a cancellation request to the web host. You can write an email to customer support or billing support for the hosting account cancellation. Hostgator asks the clients fill out canceling form through their website. You current web host must give you a confirmation through email to confirm they received your closing account request. This is the last step.
If you follow above steps to cancel your web hosting account, you will have peace of mind.