FastHostNow

Host-move planner

Move your website.
Miss nothing.

Tell FastHostNow when you want to switch hosts and how your DNS is set up. It writes a dated, step-by-step plan in your time zone: when to lower the TTL, when to freeze changes, what to check after the switch, when your mail is safe and when you can cancel the old host.

Plan my move See an example plan

Free to plan, as often as you like. Move Pass $1.95 a month or $19.50 a year for a desk of saved moves with notes and a calendar file. Free during preview.

Move · Example: bakery.example.com

OLDcurrent host
NEWnew host
Switch
Sat Oct 24
11:00 PM EDT
Method
A record
TTL now
4 hours
Steps
15

Lower TTL by

Sat 6:00 PM

Keep old host until

Sat Nov 7

No risk flags

An example: a WordPress site with 4 mailboxes and a 4-hour TTL, switching Saturday, Oct 24 at 11 PM.

DEPARTURES · SAT OCT 24 · 11:00 PM EDT

  1. T-7d Write down everything the site uses
  2. T-3d First full copy to the new host
  3. T-2d Lower the TTL to 300 seconds
  4. T-1d Test the new copy from your own computer
  5. T-1h Freeze changes
  6. T-0 Switch
  7. T+15m Check the site on the new host
  8. T+3d Final mailbox catch-up
  9. T+14d Cancel the old hosting

What it catches

The four ways a host move usually goes wrong

Every plan checks what you entered against these, and says so in plain words before you switch.

01

The TTL was lowered too late

Resolvers remember your old address for as long as the record's TTL says. With a 1-day TTL, lowering it the night before is not enough. The plan works out the deadline, and if it has passed, the earliest clean switch time.

02

Email quietly stops

A new host's default DNS zone often has no MX, SPF or DKIM records for mail that lives at Google or Microsoft. The plan adds the check, and for mailboxes that move, a final catch-up 72 hours after the switch.

03

Orders land on the old server

Copy a shop's database at 10 PM, switch at 11, and every order in between is gone. The plan schedules a freeze and a final copy right before the switch, and warns when a shop switches in busy hours.

04

The old host is cancelled too soon

After a nameserver change some visitors use the old DNS for up to 48 hours. The plan keeps the old account 7 or 14 days, depending on what moved, with one last backup before you cancel.

How it works

Three minutes of questions, one plan you can follow

  1. 1

    Tell it the move

    Switch date and time, your TTL, A record or nameservers, the kind of site, where email lives. A guess is fine for size.

  2. 2

    Get a dated plan

    Every step with its date and time in your zone, counted down from the switch (T-7d to T+14d), and the risks for your setup.

  3. 3

    Tick it off

    Save it to a Move Desk (private link, no account) and mark steps done. Move Pass adds notes, a calendar file and CSV.

Pricing

Planning is free. Keeping track is $1.95.

No hosting is sold here and nothing is resold: you pay only for the Move Desk features. During the preview, Move Pass is free: nothing is charged and no card is asked for.

Compare in full

Free

$0

  • Unlimited plans
  • Print any plan
  • Move Desk: 1 saved move
  • Tick steps off

Move Pass

$1.95/month

or $19.50 a year

  • 25 saved moves
  • Notes on every step
  • Calendar file (.ics) of all steps
  • CSV of every move

Free during preview

What FastHostNow is not

  • Not a host. It does not sell or recommend hosting plans, and earns nothing from any host.
  • Not a checker. It never looks up, logs in to or changes your DNS, servers or registrar. You make every change.
  • Not a person. No one reviews your plan. The rules behind it are on How a move works.