Hi guys,
Today we’re going to see how you can move your Wordpress website to a new host.
Let’s say you have a wordpress site
and you are not happy with the current hosting provider.
Now how do you move this site from your current hosting provider to a new host?
You can do that by watching this video.
So after watching this video,
You will be able to move your entire wordpress site to a new host
without affecting any of your Website’s content.
Okay!
So let’s get started.
I am Bryan from website learners.
And let’s move our wordpress website.
First let’s see the website, which we are going to move.
Here it is.
Now this is the site, which we are going to move to the new host.
You can see all the pages
and it’s contents.
Now, before we move this site to the new host.
Let’s see where our site is hosted right now.
So to check that,
Just go to the video you are watching now.
And then click this link.
And it will take you to this page.
This is the page where you can find your current hosting provider.
So on this page,
you can find the hosting of any site.
So to find the hosting of your site.
Enter your website’s URL in this field.
So let’s go to our site.
And copy this URL
and then paste it here.
Now if we click ‘Find hosting’.
You can see where this site is hosted right now.
And as you can see, our site is now hosted on ‘Godaddy’.
So now that you know your current hosting provider.
Now how do you move this site to a new host?
So to move your site to a new host.
We are going to do 3 steps.
The first step is to get your new hosting.
Now there are many hosting providers available on the internet.
I am going to choose “WebSpaceKit” hosting and move my site there.
So to get your new hosting on ‘WebSpaceKit’.
Just click the link below this video.
And it will take you to ‘WebSpaceKit’
So this is the website where we are going to get our new hosting.
Now go to ‘plans’,
And here, you can see that we have four different plans.
Now, if you want to move one website, you can select this plan.
Or, if you want to move multiple websites, you can select from these plans.
As I want to move one website to this new host,
I am going to select this plan.
Here, it will ask you to choose a domain.
As you can see here, we already have a domain on our current site.
So as we already have a domain,
And want to use my existing domain for the new host.
I am going to select this.
And here, you need to enter the same domain name, which is here.
So let’s enter that.
Once you have entered your domain name.
To get the new hosting.
Click ‘use’
Now, here you can see that we're getting a new hosting for 12 months.
So to get it.
Click ‘Continue’
And then fill up these details.
And here, you need to choose your payment method.
I’m going to use my card.
So let’s enter our details here.
And then click ‘order now’.
As you can see,
we have successfully placed our order.
Now let’s click here.
And you can see here, we have successfully got our new hosting.
Once you have purchased your new hosting,
‘WebSpaceKit’ automatically installs WordPress.
Okay!
Once you have got your new hosting.
You can now go to Step 2,
which is to Copy your wordpress site to the new host.
So to copy the site to the new host,
you need to first login to your website.
So to login,
Let’s go to our website,
And then enter
/wp-admin
next to your website's address.
And press enter.
And now it will take you to the login page of wordpress.
Now just login to your site.
Okay!
So now we have logged in to our Wordpress site, which is on our old host.
Once you have logged in.
Now to copy your website,
You need to install a plugin on this Wordpress site.
So to install the plugin.
Let’s go to plugins.
And then click ‘add new’
Now search for a plugin called “Migrate guru”.
And you will get this plugin.
So this is the plugin which is going to help us to copy this wordpress site
to the new hosting.
Now to install the plugin,
Let’s click ‘Install’,
And then click ‘Activate’.
Okay!
So now we’ve successfully installed the plugin.
Once you have installed the plugin.
We need to copy this site to our new host.
So to copy your site to the new host.
Just enter your email address here.
And then click “Migrate site”.
And it will take you to this page,
where it will ask you to choose your new hosting provider.
Based on your hosting you can select the method,
Since webspace kit has cPanel access,
I am going to choose this one,
So let’s click on it.
Now to move your site to your new host,
It will ask you to enter these details.
Now once you have purchased your new hosting,
you should have received these details in your email.
So let’s go to your inbox.
And you can see that we have got this email.
Just open it.
And you can see here we have these details.
Just copy these details
and paste them on your site.
So first, let’s copy this site’s URL
and paste it here.
Then copy this IP address
and paste it here.
Next, we need to enter the cPanel login details.
So let’s copy this username
and paste it here.
Then copy this password and paste it here.
Once you have entered these details.
We can now start to copy our site to the new host.
Now before you start copying your site,
You need to check if your new host has SSL.
As you can see, we have got free SSL for the plan we selected.
So if your new host has SSL.
Make sure that you enter 'https' here.
Okay!
So once you have entered these details,
You can now start copying your site to the new host.
So to copy your site,
All you have to do is,
click ‘Migrate’.
As soon as you click it,
You can see that your website is getting copied to the new host.
And once it’s done,
you will see this page.
Which means your site is now successfully copied to your new host.
Okay!
Now we have successfully copied our site to the new host.
To check if our site is moved to the new host.
Let's go back to the hosting finder tool,
And now if we click ‘Find hosting’.
You can see that our site is still hosted on ‘Godaddy’, which is our old host.
So this means our site has not yet moved to the new host.
Now we’ve copied all the files from our old host to the new host.
But our domain still points to the old host and loads our site from there.
Now in order to load our site from the new host,
we need to’ point our domain to the new host.
So to point our domain to our new host,
We need to add the IP Address of the new host to our domain.
Next, let’s go to the final step, which is to add the new IP Address to our domain.
So to get the IP Address of the new host.
Let’s go back to our inbox.
Here you can see we have the new IP Address
So this is the IP Address which you need to add to your domain.
Since our domain is with ‘Godaddy’,
Let’s go to ‘Godaddy’.
And click ‘sign in’,
Now let’s enter our ‘Godaddy’ account details.
And then click ‘sign in’,
Now here you will find the domain of your website.
Now to add the new IP address to this domain.
Click ‘DNS’.
And here you can see these details.
Now you need to add the IP address to your ‘A’ record.
So here you can see that we have the IP address of the old host.
To change this to ‘WebSpaceKit’ IP address,
Click here.
Now before you change the IP address.
Make a note of this old IP address.
So that you can use it in case you want to get back to your old host.
Now I am going to copy this
and save it to my notepad.
Okay!
Once you have saved the old IP address.
Let’s go back to our inbox.
so to add the IP address of the new host.
Let’s delete this.
And then copy this New ip address
And paste it here.
Now, if you click ‘save’.
Your new IP address will be added to your domain.
Now, if you have multiple A records on the same IP address,
You need to add the IP address for that A record also.
So like we did before,
Let’s click here.
And delete this.
Now paste the new IP address, which we copied earlier.
And then click ‘save’.
So now we have successfully added the new IP address to our domain.
And our site will be moved to the new host.
So to check that,
Let's go back to ‘Hosting finder’.
You can see that previously our site was hosted on ‘Godaddy’.
Now if you click ‘Find Hosting’.
You can see that your website is now hosted on ‘WebSpaceKit’.
So this means
we have successfully moved our site from the old host to the new host.
Now if we open a new tab,
And go to our site,
You can see that
it has the same content which we had before.
So now we have successfully moved our site to a new host.
You can use the same method for moving your site to any host.
Okay!
Next, let’s go to the last part of this video,
which is to activate SSL on your website.
Now, if we go to our site,
You can see that we don’t have the ‘https’ or the ‘SSL’ lock symbol here.
Now as we have free SSL on our hosting plan.
The SSL will automatically get activated after a few hours on your site.
But if you don’t want to wait for the automatic SSL,
and want to enable it immediately,
You have an option to activate it manually.
So to activate SSL immediately on your site.
Let’s go to ‘WebSpaceKit’.
Now click here,
then click ‘cPanel’
And it will take you to this page.
Now here search for ‘SSL’.
then click this.
And you will get this page.
Now to activate the SSL.
Click here.
then click here
So now the SSL will be activated on our site.
Now if we go to our site.
And click ‘Refresh’
You can see that
our site is now secure with ssl
Okay!
So that’s it, guys.
This is how you can move your website to a new host.
Once you moved your site to the new host.
Make sure you check all the pages and see everything loads perfectly.
If everything is working fine,
Then you can stop the subscription of the old host.
Now, if you are finding any issues with your site
and you want to revert back to the old host.
Just enter your old IP address
which you have saved on your notepad,
into your domain’s DNS page.
Now to start migrating your site to webspace kit,
Click the link below this video,
You can see that it has a lot of great features, which you can checkout here.
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Thanks for watching,
I’ll see you in the next video.
Take care.
Bye-bye.