Website migration
How to move your website to new hosting with no downtime, no lost data and no lost email — or have ONQU do it.
Moving your website to new hosting
Switching hosts is usually straightforward if you plan it. The aim: no downtime, no lost data and no lost email.
Take a full backup
Files and database. Keep a copy on your own computer as well as the host’s.
Check where your email lives
If email is with your old host, move or set it up first — this is where most migrations go wrong.
Copy the site across
Use a migration plugin or your new host’s tool, then test it on a temporary address.
Point your domain
Update DNS to the new host, then check SSL, forms and logins once it switches.
Cancel the old hosting
Only after everything works on the new host — and you’ve kept your backup.
Rather we did it?
ONQU Support migrates websites, applications and databases — from a single WordPress site to whole server estates moving to the cloud.