Moving a Website articles

Moving a Website 1,285 How to migrate a site without downtime Changing hosting provider does not have to take your site offline. The trick is simple: set everything up here...
Moving a Website 761 Internal migration: moving sites between plans Changing plan inside Interweb - from Pro Hosting to Plus Hosting, say - is far simpler than migrating from another...
Moving a Website 948 How to generate zip and sql files to migrate a WordPress site A WordPress site is always two halves: the files (theme, plugins, images) and the database (posts, pages, settings)....
Moving a Website 487 A test site before touching what is live Half the broken sites we see broke the same way: somebody updated, installed or changed something on the live site,...
Moving a Website 281 Moving a site by hand: files by FTP and the database Moving a site by hand is two copies and one connection: the files, the database, and the line of configuration that...
Moving a Website 273 Testing a migrated site before you change the DNS (the hosts file) To see the new site before the DNS changes, add one line to your computer’s hosts file saying “this domain lives at...
Moving a Website 285 Migrating WordPress with a plugin: how it works and where it fails A migration plugin bundles the site (files and database) into a package, which you carry to the destination and...
Moving a Website 263 Moving to cPanel from Plesk, DirectAdmin or another panel: what moves and what you rebuild A control panel is just the shop window for five things that exist on any server: files, databases, mailboxes, DNS...
Moving a Website 259 Migrating a WooCommerce shop without losing orders A brochure site can be copied at leisure, because it does not change while you copy it. A shop changes all the time:...
Moving a Website 276 Moving a site from shared hosting to a VPS: what changes when you run the server Copying the files and the database to a VPS is the same as any other migration. The difference is in what does not...
Moving a Website 269 After moving a site: the checklist for the first day The site opens and looks the same: that does not yet mean everything is right. The failures of a move turn up in...
Moving a Website 270 Moving a very large site: when FTP is too slow and what to use instead On a site with many thousands of files FTP is slow because every file is a separate request, and the time goes on...
Moving a Website 262 The site moved but something is broken: what each symptom points to After a move, each error almost always has one typical cause. Instead of redoing everything, read the symptom, go to...
Moving a Website 277 Leaving a hosting provider: how to take everything with you before you cancel Before you cancel, take five things: the site files, the databases, the e-mail, the list of DNS records, and the...
Moving a Website 278 Handing a website over to a client or another company: what to move and what to change Handing over a site is four different things, and each has its own owner: the domain, the hosting account, the...