Website Migration

A: If your present hosting provider can no longer satisfy the needs of your site, or when you experience constant downtime, or if you are forced to wait for hours for the customer support staff to reply to you, it might be a smart idea to switch your hosting provider, i.e. to migrate all the files for your web sites as well as your databases from your current provider to your future provider. At SluHost, we are aware that this can be difficult & time–consuming. This is the reason why we’ll accomplish all that for you at no cost!Our highly qualified technical staff reps will transfer your web site content from your present provider to us. Our technicians have a lot of experience with website migration and can handle anything – from an average WordPress–powered weblog or Joomla^™–driven website, to an extremely complex, custom–made web application.

A: We try to perform all web site migrations as quickly as possible. Nevertheless, we do not have a fixed time frame for web site migrations. There are various things that you need to take into account – the mere size of your web site and the workload of our web site migration staff, etc. We constantly try to accomplish each migration within 48 hours. With less sizeable sites, our team usually manages to finish in less than 24 hours.

A: We’ll require the login details for your current hosting provider’s Control Panel as well as the website’s name (domain name).

A: Before we can start the migration of your account, you must already have an account with us. Opening an account with us requires that you to disclose the same details you have given to your previous hosting provider. We also have a very rigid Privacy Policy, which describes how personal info is tackled.

A: While we move your website, it will be available both in your web hosting account with us and in your account with your previous hosting provider. As soon as the migration is completed, we will make certain that everything is functioning correctly and that the integrity of your content is not affected before notifying you that the migration is finished. After that, we will explain to you how to transfer the domain name to your hosting account with us and how to edit your DNS records.

A: While we migrate your web content, your hosting provider will not be aware of the migration at all. We will never touch base with them in any way.

A: We can migrate your web site from any web hosting provider or any Linux–powered web hosting platform provided that we can obtain access to the Control Panel and there’s FTP access available.The only websites that we are unable to migrate are those based on closed–source software applications such as Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square and Mr Site.