Migrate Your WordPress Website to New Hosting
Migrate Your WordPress Website to New Hosting
There are a variety of reasons to do a WordPress migration.
Maybe you’re having a poor experience with a hosting company. Maybe you found a cheaper or better fitting hosting solution. Maybe you’re trying to get all of your websites under the same umbrella.
Whatever your reason, a WordPress migration can pose a significant technical challenge to even experienced webmasters.
WordPress Migration Steps
A few things to consider with a WordPress migration are:
- Ensuring you have the proper access to your website and domain
- Creating the necessary backups in case something goes wrong
- Installing WordPress in the new hosting environment correctly for a migration
- Migrating all of your files and databases without missing anything
- Making sure all user accounts are ported over correctly
- Pointing the DNS settings to the correct place (especially MX records for email)
- Potentially leaving behind other assets (emails, office subscriptions, etc.)
- Configuring the URLs properly in the new environment
- Configuring CDN settings for the new environment
- Setting up SSL (if applicable) in the new environment
- Setting up FTP users in the new environment
- Understanding how to use phpMyAdmin in the new environment
- Removing unnecessary migration and installation files when finished
- Troubleshooting common issues
Failing to understand even one of these steps can jeopardize the entire migration and cause your website to be unreachable..
Pricing for this service is a flat $299 if you’re migrating your website to one of our hosting environments. We offer managed WordPress hosting starting at $50 a month, and it is included in all of our WordPress Support Packages if you need help maintaining your website as well. We highly recommend these support packages, as they take all of the technical hassle out of owning a website.
If you’d like help with your WordPress migration, get in touch with us to see if your project is a fit.
Note that you will need access to your domain login and your WordPress website for us to migrate your website correctly. If you do not have these items, they’ll need to be tracked down before we can begin.