Website Migration
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Q: Why do I have to transfer my website? What does website migration consist of?
A: If your present hosting provider can no longer measure up to the requirements of your site, or when you experience regular downtime, or if you have to wait for hours for the customer support team to reply to you, it might be a smart idea to swap your provider, i.e. to migrate all the files for your web sites along with your databases from your current provider to your new provider. At cloud-acquistare, we know that this can be difficult & time–consuming. For this reason, we’ll accomplish all that for you for free!Our experienced technical team reps will move your site content from your present web hosting provider to us. Our techs have got broad experience migrating websites and are able to take care of everything – from a common WordPress–based blog or Joomla™ CMS–powered website, to a very complex, custom–built web app.
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Q: Web site migration sounds like lots of work. How long does it take?
A: There are lots of aspects to take into consideration – the total amount of web files, the size of the database, the complexity of the site itself and the current workload of our web site migration experts, etc. Still, we do our very best to perform all web site migrations within a 48–hour time window. Smaller–sized sites are transferred much faster – usually in under 24 hours.
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Q: Do you need anything from me before you start transferring my web site?
A: We don’t gather any private details. We’ll require, though, the login info for your current hosting account along with the name of the website that you want to transfer.
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Q: The login info for my hosting account is delicate. How can I rely on you?
A: In order for us to start the transfer of your account, you must first open an account with us. Opening an account with us will require that you to share more or less the same info you have given to your previous web host. We’ve also got an extremely rigid Privacy Policy, which specifies how personal info is handled.
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Q: What about downtime? Will my web site be offline?
A: While we move your web site, it will be available both in your web hosting account with us and in your account with your former hosting provider. As soon as the transfer is finished, we will make sure that everything is working correctly and that the integrity of your data is not affected prior to informing you that the transfer is finished. Then we will instruct you how to transfer the domain over to your web hosting account with us and how to change the DNS resource records.
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Q: Will my present web hosting provider need to provide any information/assistance?
A: While we transfer your web content, your hosting provider will not be aware of the migration at all. We will not touch base with them in any way.
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Q: Which hosting providers can you transfer content from?
A: We can transfer your site from any web hosting provider or any Linux–driven hosting platform as long as we can acquire access to the Control Panel and there is FTP access available.The only sites that we cannot transfer are those based on closed–source software apps like Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square and Mr Site.