Website Migration

A: When your present hosting provider can no longer satisfy the needs of your site, or when you go through regular downtime, or if you are made to wait for hours for the help desk staff to respond back to you, it might be a clever idea to swap your hosting provider, i.e. to migrate all the files for your sites along with your databases from your current provider to your new provider. At Site Perch, we know that this can be difficult & time–consuming. This is the reason why we’ll accomplish all that for you at no cost!Our highly proficient technical staff reps will transfer your web site content from your current hosting provider to us. Our technicians have plenty of experience with website migration and are able to take care of anything – from an average WordPress weblog or Joomla^™ CMS–based website, to a highly elaborate, custom–built web application.

A: We try to implement all web site migrations as quickly as possible. Nonetheless, we do not have a set time frame for web site migrations. There are several factors that you need to consider – the actual size of your web site and the workload of our web site migration staff, etc. We constantly try to accomplish each migration in less than 48 hours. With smaller–sized websites, our team typically manages to finish in under 24 hours.

A: Yup. We will need the name of the web site that you want us to migrate. We’ll also require a means to log into your old hosting account so that we can get the files pertaining to your web site.

A: In order for us to start the migration of your hosting account, you must already have an account with us. Opening an account with us will require that you to disclose exactly the same details you have given to your current web hosting provider. We’ve also got a very rigorous Privacy Policy, which specifies how private information is dealt with.

A: No. Your web site will remain visible online during the transfer. Once everything is completed on our end, we’ll tell you so that you can examine it and check for problems. If everything’s okay, all you will have to do is modify your domain name’s DNS settings.

A: Nah. Apart from your login credentials for the Control Panel, we don’t need anything. We will never get in touch with your web hosting provider. They will not know anything about the transfer either.

A: We can migrate your site from any hosting provider or any Linux–powered hosting platform given that we can acquire access to the Control Panel and there is File Transfer Protocol access available.The only websites that we cannot transfer are those based on closed–source software applications such as Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square and Mr Site.