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Move your WP Blog to a new Host
This tutorial shows step by step how to move your blog and domain to a new host.
Back up your website
- Use your FTP utility and download your blog root folder with all the files and sub folders to your desktop.
- Go to your cPanel and from there to phpMyAdmin and Export your Database (tar.gz) to your desktop.
Load to new Host
- Either you create a new hosting account or you create an ‘add on domain’ on an existing hosting account. Name the folder ‘yourdomain.com’, whereas ‘yourdomain’ is the name of the domain you move.
- Create a database, ideally with same name, user-name and pass (if you change any of these, you will have to modify the corresponding entries in ‘wp-config.php’).
- Go to phpMyAdmin on new host and import your database.
- Upload the content of your blog root folder to the new host using your FTP utility.
- Make sure your permission settings are correct: make the uploads folder and sub-folders writable (777) as well as cache folders (eventually under wp-content).
- Check your wp-config.php file and make sure the Database name, user and pass are correct.
Test your blog: access using : http://IP-Address/~username/addon-domain/
Change DNS on your Domain
- Go to your domain hosting account, and edit DNS settings: point your domain to the new host entering the new host’s DNS.
- Wait for the DNS to propagate and start blogging.
Need help?
Just use the comment form here below for questions you may have.
Want us to move your site?
We will charge $20 per blog to move. So if you have a domain with 10 add-on domains or sub-folders with each a WP blog in it, it will be $220. Also for large set-ups with DB beyond 500 MB and a folder structure beyond 1 GB, please ask for a quote.
PS: Moving your WordPress Blog to a new domain is another story. Please ask for a tutorial and or a quote.
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