[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 3 months ago]

You’ll have all sorts of shiny new and cool things when you do 🙂

Check your web hosts support and FAQ section, they should have some pretty good docs on how to backup your WordPress site and your database. They might even have those fully automated and implemented for you so you only need to confirm the backup is there, it is current, and it has all your content that you expect to be.