Migrating a .PK Domain Website to a New Hosting Provider

Aug 12, 2025

You would at some point be forced to transfer your .PK domains to a different hosting company. It can occur in case you want to have faster speed, more features, enhanced security, or, again, a lower price. Moving a website may seem like a tricky task, however, when you do it in the right way you are able to transfer it without losing any data on the sites or followers.  

1. Why relocate .PK domain website?  

Various reasons make people want to change hosting providers, among them:  

• Lack of speediness in the websites  

• Buggy or frequent offline phenomena  

• Marketing services of poor quality  

• Storage or advanced feature requirements  

• Need Lower prizes/promotions on the part of another provider  

2. PCs and Things to Look at Before Migration  

Prior to transferring your site, be certain:  

• Your new webhost also has the facility to handle .PK domain and can connect it to you. 

• Your web space files; databases and emails are backed up fully.  

• You record all significant configuration such as email accounts, dell shows the DNS, and custom configurations. 

3. How to transfer your .PK Domain Website  

Step 1: Choose Your New Hosting Providers  

Find a hosting package that best fits your site requirements find something with good speed, 99.9% up-time, free SSL, and great customer service.  

Step 2: Take a Web Site Backup  

Backup in full:  

• Files of a website (HTML, PHP, images etc.).  

• Databases (MySQL or with others)  

• Addresses and emails retained  

This is possible on the cPanel of your old host or you can ask their support team to do it.  

Step 3: Move Your Files Over to Your Website  

Upload the backed-up files and database to new host account. This is possible by:  

• cPanel file manager  

• FTP client (such as FileZilla) 

Step 4: DNS Records updating  

Sign in to your account which you have registered .PK domain. Edit the nameservers and have it reference your new hosting provider. The correct address of the nameservers will be provided by the new host. 

The new host will provide the right nameserver addresses.  

Example:  ns1.newhost.com  

                  ns2.newhost.com  

The changes in the DNS can propagate globally up to 24-48 hours.  

Step 5: Check on your Website 

Once the DNS has been updated, visit your site with the new hosting:  

• Look at every primary page  

• Links and test forms  

• Monitor email (assuming that it is hosted by your provider)  

4. Recommendations to a Smooth Migration  

• Perform the migration when it is a low traffic period to minimize the downtime.  

• Maintain the old hosting account alive at least several days until you are certain all working fine. 

• Let your frequent visitors or clients know in the case there may be some downtime. 

5. After Migration Optimize  

Whenever your site is up in the new hosting, use the occasion and:  

• Increase the speed through caching  

• Check mobile responsiveness  

• Additional security by adding security plug ins or fire software shall also be done  

• Check on the SEO settings to ensure that search engine rankings are not compromised 

Conclusion  

There is nothing complicated about migrating a .PK domain-based site to a new web hosting provider so long as the actual migration has been thought through. This can be achieved by selecting a trustworthy new host, backing up your data, updating your DNS records and testing your site thus ensuring that the change will not cause the loss of essential files or visitors. This is worth doing as a trouble-free migration can bring your site performance improvements, more functionality, and enhanced security- making it worth the effort.