My website is hosted on my own server, however the domain is registered with fasthosts and I want to change to a different provider.Will i experience any downtime?
Domain reg transfer - will my site go down at all?
domains;web hosting
If you are not changing the hosting provider, you have almost no risk, the transfer can take up to 7 days for some registrar, but the way it work the domain will be at registrar 1, and when it complete it'll be at registrar 2, it won't be lost between them.What I mean is that the first registrar will disable it at the exact moment the second one enable it, well it 99% of the case we've done transfer.If however you change hosting too, then you must specify to the new registrar to change the DNS name as soon as the transfer is done, and you must make sure the file are already in the new hosting account, which can be accessed via his IP/~account-namei.e: aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/~8letters usually (depend on the type of server, Linux, Windows...)