How To Copy Your Website (And Take It with You to a New Web Host)

The other day I read an interesting post, by blogging tips site, Essential Keystrokes, on how to "Easily Switch from One Web Host to Another".

The 1st step in the guide is to backup/copy your website.

The tool I use for this task is HTTrack. It is a free, offline browser utility which lets you copy an entire Web site to your computer. HTTrack will copy all web pages and images, and reconstruct internal links on a site.

HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

Once you have your website on your computer; switching to a new web host is a "no brainer" -- just follow the rest of the steps in the guide.