Website Migration

A: The web site migration service on offer at CloudHost is absolutely free of cost and involves transferring all your website files, databases and e–mails from your current hosting provider to your new hosting account with us. We’ll also edit all the configuration settings needed for your websites to be fully operational on our state–of–the–art cloud hosting platform.Our techs are fully capable of transferring any type of website. With years of experience in the industry, they are well–versed in the inner workings of our cloud hosting platform, our Control Panel and all other widely used Control Panels. For them, moving a custom–built web app with numerous custom libraries is as easy as transferring a simple WordPress–based weblog.

A: There are lots of aspects to keep in mind – the total number of files, the physical size of the database, the complexity of the web site itself and the current workload of our web site migration professionals, etc. Nonetheless, we do our very best to perform all web site migrations in a 48–hour window. Smaller–sized sites are transferred much faster – usually in less than 24 hours.

A: We’ll need the login information for your old hosting provider’s Control Panel along with the web site’s name (domain name).

A: Our Privacy Policy is an indivisible part of the contract that we will have with you as a client. We are dedicated to protecting the security of the private data obtained from the customers. To do this, we employ technical safety measures in order to prevent the loss, the misapplication, the modification or the unauthorized leak of the private info under our control. The measures include, but are not limited to: physical, digital and administrative procedures to protect and secure the details that we assemble on the World Wide Web. When we ask customers to present financial information (for instance, a debit card number), this info is encrypted using the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption technique.

A: Your website will continue to work exactly like it did before with your old web hosting provider. Once we are through with the transfer, your site will be configured to work on our web hosting platform and we will ask you to preview it. If everything is functioning properly, all you will need to do is edit the NS resource records corresponding to your domain name. Your website will be migrated over to us with no downtime whatsoever.

A: While we migrate your content, your hosting provider won’t be aware of the migration at all. We won’t touch base with them in any way.

A: We can transfer your web site from any web hosting provider or any Linux–driven web hosting platform so long as we can obtain access to the Control Panel and there is File Transfer Protocol access available.The only websites that we’re unable to migrate are those based on closed–source software apps such as Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square and Mr Site.