Why move a WordPress site to another host?
Website hosting is its infrastructure and a very important part of its management and promotion. If the infrastructure is not good, the website will not function properly. There are many reasons to switch hosting: unattractive prices, inefficient customer service, unresolved malfunctions, repeated website hacks, slow website loading, and more. If your WordPress website is experiencing many problems caused by the hosting service, we recommend that you don't hesitate to transfer the website to a new server. When you transfer a website correctly, your visitors won't even notice that anything has changed – except that the website will load faster and better.How do you transfer a WordPress site to another server?
We can save you the trouble of reading and dealing with it: the best and easiest way to transfer a WordPress site to new hosting is to ask the new hosting company to do the transfer for you. Any professional website hosting service will be happy to do this for you (and so will we! Contact us and we will be happy to transfer your WordPress site to us). If you still want to transfer the site yourself, here are the steps:- Purchase new hosting. Do not cancel your old hosting until you are 100% sure that the website has been transferred successfully.
- Back up all the content on your WordPress website: the database, files, plugins, and templates. You can do this using a backup plugin (such as Updraft Plus or duplication plugins such as Duplicator) and save the files on your computer. Some hosting companies also offer the option of backing up on the server itself, using cPanel. It is very important to back up all files in the site folder, including hidden files such as htaccess.
- Upload all files to the new server using cPanel or FTP.
- Create a new, empty database for your WordPress site using the Wizard in cPanel.
- Import the database you downloaded from the old storage to the new database and connect WordPress to the new database. It is likely that the database name and username have changed, and you will need to change them accordingly in the wp-config.php file.
- Change the DNS information in the domain registrar. Keep in mind that it may take some time for the change to take effect.
- Check that the site has migrated and is working properly, including logging into WordPress, menus, widgets, plugins, and redirects.
- Update your email software with the new settings - when you change servers, the address that the email software points to changes. If you don't update the settings, you won't receive any emails.
- Make a new, fresh backup of the site.
- Cancel your old hosting service.
Don't have time to deal with transferring your website? Contact us and we will transfer it for you, quickly and efficiently!