moving to a different host

[Christy]

I am moving to a different host...dumping ipowerweb...( terrible support)..can you guys tell me what I should of careful about. new host is VPS....What should I do to make sure I dont loose google ranking/position...should I do a permanet redirect....

thanks

[michael_s]

If you move your entire site intact , domain and all, and update the dns, there will be no outward change that anyone will notice, including google. There is nothing to worry about. No redirects are needed, etc.

[Christy]

Thanks msasek....appreciate it...

I have some other questions....my new hosting plan is basically a low cost VPS....I see lot of application in the control panel but I am not sure which ones would be compatible with oscmax.

Here are the applications:

eAccelerator 0.9.3

FrontPage Extensions 2002 4.0.SR2

GNU Compiler Collection 1.0

Java JRE 1.5

Mod Perl 1.2.6

Mod Php 4.4.2

Mod Php 5.0.5

Mod Php 5.1.2

Perl 5.6.0

Perl 5.8.7

Python 2.2.2

Website Creator Lite 1.0

MySQL 3.23.56

MySQL4 4.1.9

PerlMySQL 1.1

PerlMySQL 1.48

phpMyAdmin 2.6.0

ImageMagick 6.2.4

SpamAssassin 3.1.0

should I go with the latest versions of php and mySQL?

thanks

[michael_s]

These will work with no problem:
eAccelerator 0.9.3
Mod Php 4.4.2
Perl 5.8.7
Python 2.2.2
MySQL 3.23.56
phpMyAdmin 2.6.0
ImageMagick 6.2.4
SpamAssassin 3.1.0

You may have issues with:
Mod Php 5.0.5
Mod Php 5.1.2
MySQL4 4.1.9

[Christy]

thanks msasek...appreciate it much!

[Christy]

move was flawless....google/yahoo spent the first day at my yahoo.

Thanks for the help