How to move your website to other host?

[WebHostVoice]

Moving a website is so easy for me because of I did this many times. I run my single personal blog in my native language and few year ago one of hosting company disabled backup feature but I move my site in 5 minute :cheer:

It does not matter If you use cPanel/Siteworx/direct admin or whatever.

Login to your control panel(cp/da/siteworx)
If you don't know how to login then here is example of login url of following control panels however some of host use different port and you need to check your welcome email or contact your hosting company.

cPanel: http:// example.com:2082


SiteWorx: https:// server.example.com:2443/siteworx/index.php?action=login


Direct Admin: http:// server.example.com:2222

Take a backup of Files/Folder
Go to file manager
Most of control panel provide online file manager, In File Manager select all files/folders and create a compressed zip/tar file using "compress file" feature.

Once compressed file generated then for security reason move it inside home folder then download compressed file to your desktop and remove generated file from your web server.

Now login to your new hosting control panel, go to file manager and use upload feature to upload your file and extract it to your public home folder.


Moving SQL Database?
If your site use database then login to your control panel, go to phpMyAdmin and use export feature to export database to your desktop.

Now you need to login to your new hosting control panel and import it from phpMyAdmin using import tool.

- Manually create email accounts on your new site and take a backup of email by FTP.

Now test your website, If it does not work then try to fix your software/script and change site IP/URL in settings.

 

[Thomasss]

Awesome tutorial, something that everyone should know how to do just in case they need to. 😀

Thanks for posting. ^.^

 

[zozoreview]

Thanks for the tutorials. ^_^

 

[ngocthem88]

Thanks for sharing

 

[Page]

This is something I need to be doing soon. Don't know when. Moving to VPS from Shared

 

[Jesse]

Some web hosting provider migrate your web hosting without any cost. You may ask to your hosting provider..

 

[Amy Justin]

Thanks for amazing sharing

 

[WebHostVoice]

Some web hosting provider migrate your web hosting without any cost. You may ask to your hosting provider..

Yes but its a better to do it yourself so you can improve your skill otherwise you will be always dependent on someone.

 

[Cryptonic]

I have been debating on using my old gaming PC to host an IIS and bring my website from outsource to local.

 

[metagento]

The basic things are:
- Moving all files
- Moving databases ( make sure DB name, DB user, DB password are same with old site if you don't want to re-configure )