In this WordPress migration tutorial, I will show you step by step
how to transfer your website to a new host
for free. I will be breaking the steps down too correctly pointing your domain
name to your new host cloning your website
and transferring your website over i will
show you how to do all this with just one free simple wordpress
plugin so let's get started step one you will
need to choose a new hosting provider and sign up for an account i honestly
recommend a2 hosting as i have some of my own website hosted
with them if you want to see the pros and cons of
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current hosting plans so we click on get started
and if you want more help on choosing the right hosting plan
or how to buy a2 hosting step by step then i have this video that will help
you do just that another unique feature of a2 hosting
which sets them apart from their competition
is their site migration so once you have signed up for a2 hosting
you can come to their support ticket and submit a request for migration
by filling out all the required information and a2 hosting will
literally do the whole thing for you for free
so that can give you a peace of mind and you don't have to worry about doing this
process yourself now let's come back to signing up for a2
hosting i'm just going to go all out here and
choose the turbo max plan i'll click here get turbo max and here
you can choose a new domain name but you're probably transferring from
another website so you will enter in your existing domain name
this option now you can type in your current domain name that you want to
move to a2 hosting click on use and now for this step you
would select how long you want to purchase it for
i always recommend the longest time frame as a2 hosting allows you
to refund at any time within the 36 month and you get the remaining
value back if you cancel with them so there's
absolutely no risk at all and that's what i would do
with the server location you would always pick the one that is closest to
where your customers are you only need the free ssl
and the rest is okay and we click continue make sure
that everything's okay and you're happy with my discount and
click checkout now enter your personal information your
credit card details accept the terms of service and click
complete order so now you can see we have the
confirmation and if we click here it will take us to
our main dashboard the next step is to install wordpress on
our domain and you can do this by clicking on the
cpanel login now this is just your standard cpanel
look so it's very easy to navigate now we click on wordpress a to optimize
click on install now now we choose a domain name we want to install wordpress
make sure it's https here put in your name
description you can keep it the same as your previous host if you want
and then the user and password and your admin email
so make sure you save all this information somewhere safe
and then click on install
and now we can see that wordpress has been installed
however we still need to point the name server from our old host to the new host
so you can see if i click here the site won't work yet
okay so now that our destination website has been installed we can go back to our
origin website and clone it today's question
for you what hosting provider are you moving
from and why let me know in the comments section
below
so the next step is to clone and migrate our website
and the free tool that i'm going to introduce to you here
is called wp vivid so what's great about this tool
is that there's no limit to the size of your website
you can transfer any size website without having to upgrade or pay for a
higher plan the reason i bring this up is many other
youtube tutorials similar to this is using a different free tool but it
comes with a catch if your website is larger than a certain
size then you will need to upgrade and pay
for that tool so now that's out the way let's get
going in this example this is my website and domain that i
have with siteground it's alan borge.com and i want to
transfer it from siteground to a2 hosting
this is my home page this is what it looks like and i want to transfer it
and this is another example page which is my about page right
so now i'm going to go to my dashboard click on plugins
click add new and type in wp vivid and the first one that pops up i click
on install click on activate and now we have
arrived to wp vivid's dashboard page so i just want to let you
know that there's two ways of doing this there's the auto migration method which
is the easiest way and there's the manual method i'm going
to show you the manual method which you'll need to do
if you're transferring the same website and the same domain
if i want to keep alan borch.com in this case
then i will need to use this manual method but if i'm creating a new domain
name then you can definitely use the
automigration method once again not many tutorial videos are
showing you the manual method which is required if you want to keep
the same website domain and this is the case for most people but
i'm going to show you this now so first of all you want to click on
this backup now button and let this run
now that the backup has been completed we scroll down to here
and we can click on download and download this
and download this so that's all i have to do
at my origin website so now i'm going to go back to my a2 hosting
destination website i now need to point my name servers from
siteground to a2 hosting this method is pretty much the same no
matter what hosting provider you're using
you just need to find the name servers so for a2 hosting
you click on account details and here's your name
servers so i'm going to have to now change
my name servers on my namecheap account so i'm going to login to my namecheap
account so i'm going to copy this and go to my
namecheap account and simply go to my domain name and
change the name servers here all four of them
once that is done you just click here on the save button
and that's it it says dns server update may take up to
48 hours to take effect this is really the case it normally
takes maximum one hour but just wait for five minutes and then
continue on this next step we still have another step to go but i
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release every week the next step is to upload
the files to our destination site so now my domain has been moved to a2
hosting i'm going to log into my wordpress
backend and the first thing i do is to go and
install the wp vivid plugin
and now all i have to do is simply scroll down
go to the upload section and now select the two files that i
downloaded previously
and uploaded
and now that it's been uploaded successfully you just click on
restore and click it again click ok and let it do its work
okay so once it's done it will log you out automatically and you'll have to
re-log in again so i'll just close this and log
back in again okay so now that's done let's see if our
migration was successful i just quickly go to appearance and
themes and click on customize just to check out
my home page so you can see here everything is there
just like before so the migration was a success and i'll
also show you the about page that i originally showed you before
to see if they match so click on pages all pages and view
the about page okay so you can see here this looks also exactly the same as
before so our migration process was a success
so you can see that i showed you the hardest way of doing it
which was migrating the same domain from one
hosting provider to another as i said all other videos that i've seen
took the easy route of transferring your website from one domain name to a
different domain name which this method that i showed you also
covers this is a quick note regarding my bonus
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it's that simple now that you have figured out how to transfer your website
to a new host you have to actually go and do it but if
you're still not sure about your next hosting provider
then this next video will help you do just that so check it out
and i will see you in that next tutorial
you