Website Migration

A: If your current hosting provider can no longer answer the needs of your site, or if you experience continual downtime, or if you have to wait for hours for the customer care team to reply back to you, it may be a clever idea to switch your provider, i.e. to transfer all the files for your sites together with your databases from your current provider to your future provider. At Snaphost Web Hosting, we realize that this can often be hard and time–consuming. That’s why we’ll perform all that for you at no cost!Our qualified technical staff will migrate your web site content from your current provider to us. Our technicians have got broad experience migrating websites and can take care of everything – from an average WordPress–based blog or Joomla^™–based site, to a highly elaborate, custom–built app.

A: There are lots of factors to take into account – the total number of web files, the physical size of the database, the complexity of the site itself and the present workload of our web site migration professionals, etc. Nonetheless, we do our best to perform all website migrations within a 48–hour time period. Smaller websites are migrated much faster – usually in under 24 hours.

A: We’ll need the login information for your old hosting provider’s Control Panel and the website’s name (domain name).

A: Before we can start the transfer of your hosting account, you must already have an account with us. Opening an account with us requires that you to disclose more or less the same information you have given to your present hosting provider. We also have a very rigorous Privacy Policy, which specifies how personal data is tackled.

A: Your website will continue to work exactly like it did before with your previous hosting provider. When we are done with the migration, your site will be configured to work on our platform and we’ll ask you to preview it. If it is functioning properly, all you will need to do is change the NS resource records associated with your domain name. Your web site will be transferred to us without any downtime whatsoever.

A: Nah. Aside from your login details for the Control Panel, we will not require anything. We will never contact your hosting provider. They won’t know anything about the transfer either.

A: We support all Linux–driven web hosting platforms. Generally, if we can receive access to your Control Panel, we’ll be able to transfer your site.The only platforms that we do not support are closed–source web site building platforms like Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square, Mr Site, etc.