Won't my site be down if I change my web hosting provider?

No, your site will not be down, not even for one second, if you are careful. You upload your site to our servers and create all the necessary files and folders first. Then you change the nameservers at your registrar. As the new information propagates over 72 hours, some people will be viewing your site with the previous hosting company, and some will be viewing your site on the new server. However, after about 72 hours, most everyone in the world will have access to your site on our server and you will have switched over, not missing a minute of uptime. You may end up having to read your eMail at two different locations for a brief time, but you shouldn't lose any.
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