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There are various reasons why you might want to move your website. Your website might get so much traffic that your current hosting provider cannot meet your needs any more. We can all but hope for this reason, rather than the more common one, which is basically that your hosting provider, well.

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

.. sucks. You might be tired of unscheduled downtime, plagued by missing emails and fed up with unanswered support ticket requests.

Keep these points in mind when you move your website:

Just by the way, we are assuming here that you have selected your new hosting provider. Just selecting a hos

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ting provider can be a major exercise in elimination, but this article is mainly about the technicalities of making the switch, not looking for a new provider.

1. Backup, backup, backup
Your website is a precious possession and you do not want to lose it. In principle you

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

need to make a copy of your site as it is and then move it across to your new host. There are various ways of achieving this.

You can either
a) Use your favourite FTP program and copy the files from your 'old' host to a safe place on your local PC. Copy all the files and folders in the we

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

b root of your server to your local machine. This will ensure that all your files and pictures are located in the right folders. Make two copies in different places on your local machine - just to be safe.

b) You can use the built-in backup facilities of your control panel. In CPanel it is easy

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

. For other types of control panels you will have to read the documentation or find out from your hosting provider how to do it. In CPanel, just select the Backups icon and choose the 'Download a home directory backup' link. This will create a ZIP file of all the files on your server. Just to be

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

on the safe side, make a copy of all the unzipped files as well with an FTP utility.

If your site consists of straightforward HTML pages, a file backup is all that is required, however, if your site has dynamic content and is built on a database engine, you must backup your SQL database as wel

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

. This can also be done in two ways.

a) By selecting Download a MySQL Database Backup in the Backups option in your CPAnel, or

b) By going directly into your MySQL database and running a full SQL export.

If you are not sure whether your site makes use of a database or not, you should definite

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

ly consult your webmaster or web hosting expert to do this for you.

2. Make the move
Making the move consists of

a) creating an account with the new hosting providers and

b) changing the nameserver entries for your website.
You do this by logging into your do

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

main registrar provider (like namecheap or GoDaddy) and selecting their 'Nameserver Setup' option. When you created the new account with the new provider, you should have received an email with the nameservers that you should use. These are normally in the form ns1.nameserver.net or dns1.nameser

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ver.net... You should have received two new nameservers - enter these into the Nameserver fields and save.

Your domain has now been set to point to the new nameservers, but it takes anything between 8 and 48 hours for the actual change to take place (this is called DNS propagation).

Your accou

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

nt has been created, the domain is going to point to the new servers, but your files have not been uploaded.

In your welcome email from your new host, you should have received information about your FTP account, as well as how to access your Control Panel account temporarily until the DNS propa

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

gation has taken place properly. You can now either upload your files through FTP, or log into your control panel (hopefully CPanel again), and go to the 'Backups' option again. You can now restore the file backup that you made previously, and restore the MySQL backup that you've made.

Your web

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

site now basically exists in two places, on the old server as well as the new server. While the DNS propagation takes place, some visitors will see the old site, and some the new. As soon as the propagation is complete, all your visitors will see the new site.

Some points to consider:
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
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1. If you are running a dynamic site with lots of visitor interaction (e.g. a forum) it might be wise to switch off the old site completely while the propagation takes place (with a message, for example to explain that the site is being moved and is down temporarily). You might lose
t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
some visitors to the old site, but if you don't do this you will find that visitors will still interact and post messages on the old site and these will never end up on the new one. (Remember, your backup is a snapshot in time. Anything that is posted to the old site after you have taken the bac
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
kup will NOT appear on the new site)

2. Emails must also be set up on the new site. For a while you ARE going to have an interruption in the email service. It helps to change your mail server settings in your Outlook or Outlook express to point directly to the IP address of the mail server inst
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
ead of the more usual 'mail.server.net' (for example) settings.

3. You will lost all your logs, including all traffic logs and visitor statistics, when you move. There is no way currently to move your traffic logs! If you are interested in retaining your log files you might or might not be able
.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
to download them to your PC and use an offline analyzer.

4. Make sure that you plan the move to take place during a low-traffic period. you should be able to see from your website statistics which periods during the week have low traffic. Remember that the move is going to take 48 hours to com
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
plete, at least.

5. Inform your customers and/or visitors and/or web hosting company of the move - where appropriate.

6. Keep your old web hosting account going for at least another week or two to ensure that all the gremlins are ironed out and that the DNS propagation has taken place properly

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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