What to Consider Before Moving your WordPress Site to a New Provider
2 min readFeb 2, 2017
So you want to move your WordPress site to a new web hosting provider?
Great! Change is always a good thing.
Before you take any action, take some time to do some proper planning.
Planning helps things go smoother and you will see problems before they show up which is always a good thing.
The first questions to ask yourself is what are you moving/migrating exactly?
- Is it the WordPress (files + database) website only?
- What about your emails accounts? Are they (currently/going to be) handled by your current web hosting provider or an external one such as gmail, rackspace?
- What about domain registration? Is the current provider your domain registrar as well?
- What about DNS? Are you relying on the current webhosting provider for DNS as well?
- What about SSL certificates (if any)?
- What other services are you using with the current provider — SVN, git, FTP storage?
The next thing is to be clear why you are migrating the site.
- You’re not happy with the current hosting provider
- The current web hosting bill keeps increasing
- Your site needs more resources
- You want to move your site out of /blog to the root location / or vice versa
- Your site needs to be moved to a better dedicated server (with VPS you can increase the resources from the control panel)
- You’re changing your business name and domain and need to change from CoolCompany.com to AwesomeCompany.com
- Setting up your site on a staging environment
- You want to hire a developer / designer to work on your site but you want to clean up some customer data before that.
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