Moving store to different host

Hi,

I need to move my site from yahoo to go daddy. I didnt want to have the site be offline and to mess something up during the process and not have the site at all so this is my plan:

1. I've created a different domain on go daddy and planning to copy the website to that domain first and make sure it works fine. Just as a fail safe in case something goes wrong.
2. After the site is working under a different domain name I'm planning to transfer the domain name to go daddy and just copy the files over.

My question is: Is this a sound plan?
Which files will I have to edit so that it would correspond to the transferred domain since it will be under test domain created as a fail safe?
How do I link up the database to the new domain?

Is this a sound plan?
With the exception of selecting GoDaddy as your host, it is a plan
Which files will I have to edit so that it would correspond to the transferred domain since it will be under test domain created as a fail safe?
I would first install a fresh ZenCart of the same version as your main domain on test domain -
Then transfer your template files from your main install
Finally, use phpmyadmin and import a DB backup from your main install to your test install
How do I link up the database to the new domain?
See above

Hi Kobra,

Thanks for the help. What host would you recommend? I'm not really happy with yahoo.

I'm not really happy with yahoo
Yeah, also not a good choice for ecommerce ZenCart

Good hosting choices: http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php/3-services
Instructions for moving to a new host: http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?142-i-want-to-move-my-zen-cart-installation-to-another-host-or-a-different-server