For this question, IT staff includes people that maintain your computers, network, or even your website and email.

If you can access your website using https://www.your-domain.com then you probably have an SSL certificate installed that will need to be moved.

You typically use SSL to secure certain parts of your website like shopping carts and sign in forms.

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When you signed up for hosting you probably received an email about how to access your control panel where you can manage FTP users, create mailboxes and more.

Your control panel typically looks like cp.your-domain.com or cp.your-hosting-company.com.

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and it is used to upload code, images and documents to your website with specialized software such as FileZilla.

Many Content Management Systems rely on databases such as MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server to store data. If your website was built with WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or similar software then you definitely have a database.

Where did you initially purchase your domain name? Did you buy your domain name at the same time as your hosting package or did you buy the domain somewhere else?

Your domain registrar is someone like GoDaddy and is typically different from your hosting company.

You may occasionally receive emails from your registrar telling you that your domain name is about to expire and you need to renew.

When you buy a domain name from GoDaddy they are the registrar for your site. You don't have to have your name servers with GoDaddy or even host your website there. You can point your name servers to someone like Rackspace who will manage your DNS settings for you.

You may have a dedicated server in your office, a dedicated server at your hosting company or a hosted solution at your hosting company, or somewhere else.

Not sure? Dedicated servers typically cost several thousand dollars per year and require IT staff to perform regular maintenance while hosted Exchange solutions are approximately $10/month per user.

You typically have one email account per user but don't forget about generic accounts like [email protected] or [email protected].