Move Any WordPress Site to a New Host — Including Email
Ten steps, in order, with the DNS and email details that everyone forgets until it's too late.
About this build
Moving a website to a new host sounds risky and mostly isn't — as long as you do the steps in the right order and don't touch the domain until the end.
A full migration with zero downtime, including the DNS part that makes everyone nervous.
What you'll be able to do afterwards
- Take a complete backup you can actually restore from
- Move files and database to a new host
- Test the site before any DNS changes
- Switch nameservers with no downtime
- Sort out SSL and email so nothing breaks
Before you start
- An existing site and a new host to move it to
- Access to wherever your domain is registered
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Test before you switch, not after
You can view a site on its new host before changing a single DNS record. Do that. Finding a broken database connection while your domain already points at the new server is a much worse afternoon.
Chapters
- 0:00
The order of operations
Why sequence is the whole job.
- 5:40
Full backup
Files and database, verified.
- 17:00
Uploading to the new host
Files, then database, then config.
- 32:15
Testing before DNS
Seeing the new site without switching anything.
- 44:00
Nameservers
The switch, and TTL timing.
- 55:30
SSL and email
The two things people forget.
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