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WordPress migration: move hosts without losing a day of traffic
A WordPress move goes wrong in four predictable places: addresses still pointing at the old server, media that stops loading, email that quietly stops sending, and a staging setting that tells search engines to forget the site. A safe move runs the new server in parallel, proves it against the old one before anything public changes, and keeps every old address answering afterwards.
You talk to the person who does the work. Usually a reply within one business day.
Who this is for
You already have a WordPress site and it needs to be somewhere else: a faster host, a different agency, a new domain, or off a platform that will not give you your files.
Where you are stuck
The quote you were given was "we will move it over the weekend." Nobody told you what happens to your email, to the pages Google already knows about, or to the customer who opens your site while it is halfway moved.
What we do
- 01Stand the site up on the new server first and run it there in parallel, while your domain still points at the old one.
- 02Rewrite every address stored inside the site: database, page builder blocks, media library. A redirect at the front door hides this problem instead of fixing it.
- 03Check the new copy against the old one page by page: forms submit, logins work, checkout completes, nothing 404s.
- 04Lower the DNS time-to-live before the switch so the cutover takes minutes rather than a day.
- 05Keep every old address answering: each one either loads or redirects to the page that replaced it.
- 06Re-issue the certificate, confirm mail still sends and passes its checks, and make sure the new site is not telling search engines to stay away.
Proof you can open
A migration that went well is invisible, so there is no dramatic before-and-after to show you. What you can check is the work that stays visible: the site below is live, and you can open it right now. The same practice runs this site you are reading, which is built and shipped as a tested artifact rather than edited in place on the server.
Real client work
Questions we get asked
- How long will my site be down?
- Minutes, and usually nobody notices. Your site keeps serving from the old host the entire time the new one is being built and checked. The actual switch is a DNS change, and we shorten the DNS cache time beforehand so it propagates quickly instead of trickling out over a day.
- Will I lose my search rankings?
- Moving does not cost rankings by itself. Rankings drop for three specific reasons: old addresses stop answering, the new site still carries the "do not index" setting used while it was being built, or the same page becomes reachable at two addresses. All three are checkable before and after the move, and we check them.
- What happens to my email?
- Email follows the domain, not the server, so mailboxes are usually unaffected. What does break is mail your old server sent for you, such as order and contact form notifications. We confirm those still send from the new setup and still pass the checks that keep them out of spam folders.
- Can you move a site you did not build?
- That is the usual case. We read what is there before touching anything, including plugins that were modified in place, which is the most common reason a move that looks fine breaks a week later.
Tell us what you need
No packages and no price list — the number depends on what you actually need. Tell us what you sell and to whom, and you get a real answer rather than a range.
You talk to the person who does the work. Usually a reply within one business day.