How to move files from one web host to another directly

The usual process of moving your website from one web host to another involves downloading all the files of your site from the old host to your computer, through an FTP client, and then uploading them to the new host. The problem with this method is (1) you waste bandwidth twice the size of your website, first when you are downloading and second when you are uploading, and (2) you waste time - wait till it finishes downloading and then wait longer as it uploads because upload speeds are usually lower then download speeds. Instead of being the middle man and wasting precious resources (both time and bandwidth are extremely precious), why not transfer your site directly to your new host?

Normal FTP clients won't allow you to do that but CoreFTP does. CoreFTP Lite is a freeware FTP client that allows you to make connections to multiple FTP servers and drag/copy files from one server to another directly, thus eliminating the middle man. Not only does it cost you zero bandwidth, it saves you about 2/3rd of your time. Since a typical web server is on a connection faster than your home connection, the transfer of files between two such hosts is extremely fast. With CoreFTP you never have to worry about moving files around, however large they are.

Some of the other features apart from the multiple-site connection includes

• Queueing of multiple FTP transfers on multiple sites
• Sessions to save FTP transfers for later resuming
• Recursive uploading, downloading, and deleting
• Optional reconnecting of lost connections

The Pro version of CoreFTP (price $34.95) provides some additional features like

• Zip compression - decompression of files
• Transfer scheduling (schedule unattended transfers)
• File Synchronization
• Thumbnail image viewing of directories