Migrating WordPress to New Host in Automated Way
Transfer your WordPress from one hosting to another is a bit complicated task, but it can be easy one if you perform it properly. There are different ways you can migrate your WordPress to a new hosting provider. Within this article we will try to explain step-by-step, how to migrate WordPress website to another hosting.
WordPress is a real masterpiece and if it is your CMS platform, that means you are awesome. WordPress is all in one, convenient website management, innovative technologies, simplicity and great codes. Surely we have to mention functionality of this platform and its expandable capabilities, as with WP you can create any types of web project which will fit any requirements.
There are a couple of reasons to change hosting provider:
- You site loads to slowly
- You exceed your bandwidth limit
- You hosting caused a downtimes for a website
- High resource usage,
- The restrictions on the number of MySQL databases
- the hosting has a poor security.
While using automated migration service, your website content will be migrated from one website to another in a couple of minutes. In order to migrate to another hosting? you have to create a new WP website on a new hosting.
- Start your website migration with your current website backup
- Install a new WordPress website on a new host.
- Go to http://www.cms2cms.com/ and start setting the data transfer.
- Type in the URL of site you want to migrate from, and the URL of one you wish to migrate to. Select WordPress as the CMS type.
- Create your account. Provide your email, username and password.
- Now you have to set up the connection between the sites. Download the bridge file, extract it from zip. Open your FTP client dashboard. Upload the folder to root directory on your both websites. Automated Connection Setup In this case, you have to provide some additional information and the connection bridge can be installed in 60 seconds. Type in WordPress source website admin URL, username and password. Provide the same information for you target WordPress website and the connection bridge will be installed in 60 seconds.
- Now you are about to select the options for your migration,
- Clear all the current data on target WordPress site before migration
- Migrate categories and pages/articles/posts SEO aliases
- Make URLs SEO-friendly
- Migrate images and attachments
- Run FREE demo migration. If you are satisfied with the results, you may start the full migration to your WordPress site on new host.
As you can see, it is much easier, than it looks like. Why you are still waiting? Go ahead and start a new life of your website right now.