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You need to follow certain step-by-step guide to achieve a painless and hassle free movement to your new affordable web site hosting provider.

1. Firstly, you need to download all current files used in your web site including graphics, html files etc that may be used in your site. Also make sure when you are copying your files you may want to save the fold structure exactly as it is on your original website server. Really, it is good to schedual the transfer process at least 1 month before you stop your old hosting services, this will give you enough time to have a smooth transfer.
2. What type of site do you have, basic html or with lots of specific features? You should to think your website demand , before selecting a web host copmany that can give what you want. These days many hosts do allow you to either handle the domain name change yourself or otherwise. 
3. While you are waiting for your new bluehost web hosting account to be ready, you need to take a backup all your web files on the old web hosting provider. Make sure you take a backup of anything and everything you can.
4. Before you make changes to your domain name, make sure you load up all the files to your new host such as hostgator using temporary login information. Most hosts do provide temporary login information prior to your domain name resolving to the new account. Although they don't really work yet, you can still start to configure all the email address that are used on your domain.
5. It doesn't matter what registrar you used to register your domain, you can initiate the name change. Technically speaking the only thing that changes in your record is the name server information.
6. According to your domain registrar, you should get at least emails confirming the domain name transfer. Once the change has been initiated it usually takes around 24 to 48 hours for you and your users to see the change. This period is generally called propagation. All the DNS servers around the globe take the same amount of time to "catch up" and take note of your domains new location.