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Migration On Us

Our engineers do the move. Your job is the sign-off.

No charge to shift your files, databases, mailboxes and settings — usually finished within a day, while your current site keeps answering visitors.

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The price of the whole move

24 hrs

Usual time to finish

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Your site offline for

Any

Sites we move per account

What Travels

The whole account, not only the visible parts

Mail left behind means the move never really happened.

Every file, every database

The document root and the databases travel as one, so you never end up with an application that only half-works. Permissions, cron entries and the configuration files wiring the two together come with them.

Mail accounts and their contents

Every account, alias and forwarder comes over, plus the messages already inside them. Mail is what most people overlook until the Monday after a switch, so it is standard on every move here.

SSL and redirect rules

A fresh certificate is issued here before the cutover, and your redirect rules cross exactly as written rather than being rebuilt from guesswork.

Your site stays up

Visitors carry on reaching your current host from start to finish. Our copy sits at a temporary address until you have reviewed it and given the word; pointing DNS at us happens last, never first.

A site packed up and carried to its new host without the visitors noticing

Why People Stay Put

The move is the obstacle. So we removed it.

Of the people who want to leave a host, most never do. The site works, more or less, and an afternoon lost to a half-restored database feels worse than another year of waiting on slow pages. That calculation is the real thing a poor host is selling you.

Trimming the fee would not have moved anybody, so the risk went instead. An engineer assembles the copy here while your existing host keeps answering every visitor. You review it at a temporary address. The DNS change happens when you say it does, and not a moment sooner.

  • No migration fee on any plan
  • The copy is built while the old site keeps serving
  • You test it before anything changes
  • DNS moves last, never first

The Process

Three stages, with the last word yours

  1. 1

    Point us at the site

    Take a plan, then raise a ticket with either your existing panel login or a backup archive. Nothing further to buy, and no migration fee waiting for your approval.

  2. 2

    We rebuild it here

    Files, databases and mail land in the new account, all reachable at a temporary address for you to test. The old host answers every genuine visitor the whole time.

  3. 3

    You approve, then we turn it

    Give the copy a proper going-over. Happy with it? Send the name our way and we watch propagation until it settles. Whatever is wrong is put right while you remain on the old host rather than after you have left it.

Timing a page load the way the person waiting on it experiences the wait

Where You Land

There is no point moving unless the destination is quicker

Your files arrive on NVMe storage running LiteSpeed in our London datacentre. Cached pages and database queries both come back quicker than they did on the crowded shared machine most sites arrive from, which is usually visible in a speed test the same afternoon.

Everything else travels with them at no extra cost: free SSL, a daily copy, the name's first year, and 99.9% uptime backed by a pro-rated credit if we ever fall short. None of that is an extra you discover at the checkout.

  • NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed on every plan
  • London datacentre
  • Free SSL issued before the cutover
  • A daily copy running from day one

Your Side

What gets us started

Six items, and you likely hold most already.

  • The login for your existing cPanel or similar panel
  • Or a full backup instead, if handing credentials over feels wrong
  • The name itself, plus access to whoever controls its DNS
  • A warning about anything odd: bespoke cron, a staging build, a stray redirect
  • A window you would prefer, where trading hours rule some out
  • Somebody on your side to sign the copy off before we cut over

After The Switch

The week after, and what to keep an eye on

Three habits that divide a tidy move from one you are still untangling a fortnight on.

Keep the old hosting alive for a few days afterwards. While propagation settles, some visitors reach the new server and some still land on the old one — and a message delivered to the old mailbox is far easier to collect than to recreate.

Check your forms. Contact forms and order notifications are the two things most likely to be aimed at an address nobody watches any more, and they fail quietly: no error page, just an enquiry that never arrives.

Then measure before you cancel anything. Run a speed test on the new server so you are comparing figures rather than impressions. If something reads slower than it should, open a ticket — the first reply lands within 2 hours, or 1 hour when a site is down.

Queries

The switch, explained

Is it genuinely free? Where is the catch?

There is not one. Every plan gets it, the entry-level one included — no migration fee, no charge per site, no minimum contract attached. That is commercial logic rather than charity: dread of the move is the main reason people stay with a host they cannot stand, so we removed the obstacle. Where the line sits: we will not rebuild your site for nothing, redesign it, or repair software that arrived already broken.

What sort of timescale?

Hand over access and an ordinary site is copied and waiting for your review inside 24 hours. Busy stores, mail stores running to many gigabytes, and accounts holding dozens of separate sites need longer — you will hear that up front, not once the job has overrun. Turning DNS itself takes seconds. How quickly every visitor sees the new server comes down to the TTL on your current DNS records, so lower it the day before if you get the chance.

Does my site drop offline?

It does not, and the entire method is built to guarantee that. The copy is put together in the new account while the old one keeps answering every request, and the outside world sees no change until you have looked it over and said go. The one unavoidable gap is propagation, when part of your audience lands on the old server and part on the new — which is exactly why both stay live, and why we ask you to hold off cancelling the old hosting for a few days afterwards.

My current host is refusing to release anything.

That data is yours, and the great majority of hosts hand over a backup when asked for one. Where yours digs its heels in, a full cPanel backup you generate yourself gives us plenty to work with. Even without that, an FTP copy paired with a database dump is usually enough to rebuild things. Send us a list of what you can lay hands on and we will say straight out whether it is enough — before you spend anything.

Does this work if my host is not cPanel?

It does. Plesk, DirectAdmin, A2, managed WordPress services and plain FTP-with-MySQL setups are all routine work for this team. The panel underneath makes no difference — all we want is readable files and exportable databases. By sheer count, WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, OpenCart and Laravel are what come through most.

Does the mail come across too?

It does, and it is worth asking for explicitly. Mailboxes, aliases and the messages already inside them travel alongside the site. Leaving mail behind on the old server is the classic reason a move unravels a week later, when somebody notices that form submissions are still landing on a server nobody is paying for.

Prefer to drive it yourself?

Tied to a host you have outgrown?

Take a plan, hand us the login, and we run the transfer at no cost. Thirty days to change your mind still applies.

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Loyalty is not what keeps anybody on a host they have outgrown. What keeps them is the prospect of a lost weekend and a database that only half restores. Our engineers do the move instead, and the weekend stays yours. Your site sits on NVMe drives with LiteSpeed caching and a 99.9% uptime SLA our monitoring desk answers for.

It suits owners stuck on a host they outgrew a while ago, and the essentials are fitted rather than upsold: a free certificate on every domain, a migration run by our team, nightly backups, and support reachable at any hour.

What our engineers actually move

Give us the login for your current panel, or a full backup if handing over credentials sits badly, and the account is rebuilt here whole: document root, databases, cron entries, redirect rules, mailboxes and everything already in them. That rebuild runs on a temporary address for you to click through, so the switch rests on evidence rather than hope. cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, managed WordPress and a plain FTP-plus-MySQL arrangement are all routine, and the panel you are leaving matters far less than whether the files can be read and the databases exported.

Monitoring never looks away. If a machine falters an engineer is on it before your site notices, which is how a 99.9% uptime figure keeps meaning something.

Free means free, and here is exactly where the line sits

Check the price once and you are finished. The renewal matches the sign-up, promotional rates are marked as promotional, and the renewal figure sits beside them so you can do the arithmetic yourself. Every hosting plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee, so trying it risks nothing more than an afternoon.

The migration is free on every plan, entry tier included, with nothing charged per site and no term to sign for it. Most sites are copied and waiting for review within 24 hours. Where a job is genuinely larger, a busy shop, a mail archive running to gigabytes, an account holding dozens of sites, you get a realistic estimate before we start rather than an apology once it has overrun.

The London hall the hardware behind this account actually sits in

Where your site lands

Your files land on NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed in our London datacentre, with the certificate issued on our side before the cutover and a nightly backup running from the first evening. The 99.9% uptime commitment and its pro-rated credit apply from the moment DNS points here, rather than from some later date when the account counts as settled.

Patching is ours. Our engineers roll kernel updates, panel releases and PHP versions across the fleet, so staying current never depends on your memory.

  • Files, databases, mailboxes and settings in a single pass
  • DNS moves last, once you have signed off the copy
  • LiteSpeed serving off 100% NVMe storage
  • DDoS traffic filtered at the network edge

Good to Know

More that's built in

The cutover is your call

Your old host keeps serving every visitor until you have tested the copy and given the word. Nothing switches to our timetable.

SSL included free

HTTPS is arranged on each domain, free to issue and free to renew, for as long as the account exists.

Zero-cost transfers

Our team brings your existing site across at no charge, usually within a day.

A restore point daily

Nightly backups need no scheduling, so a bungled update costs minutes rather than data.

Humans on the line

Engineers hold the queue at every hour, aiming at a reply inside 2 hours, or 1 hour when the site is down.

Next year costs the same

Every plan renews at the rate you began on, with no second price waiting further along.

Getting Going

Set up in three quick steps

  1. 1

    Pick the plan

    Take the tier that suits the site as it stands today; the move adds nothing to the bill whichever one you choose.

  2. 2

    Hand over access

    Open a ticket with your current panel login or a backup archive, and mention anything unusual: a custom cron, a staging build, a redirect chain somebody added years ago.

  3. 3

    Test, then switch

    Work through the copy on its temporary address, checking pages, forms and mailboxes. Say the word and DNS is repointed, and we watch the propagation until it settles.

In Every Plan

Bundled in at no extra cost

  • 30 days in which to change your mind on any hosting plan
  • No migration fee on any plan, whatever the number of sites
  • Most sites copied and ready for review inside 24 hours
  • Accounts provisioned minutes after checkout
  • Upgrade tiers without your files going anywhere
  • UK-registered company, pricing in US dollars
  • Shaped around owners stuck on a host they outgrew a while ago
  • Every hosted domain gets SSL free

Still Curious

Questions that keep coming up

What is not included in a free migration?

Rebuilding, redesigning and repair work. What exists is moved and made to run properly here. A plugin broken on the old server arrives broken, and we tell you so rather than quietly rewriting a site nobody asked us to touch. Everything structural is included on every plan, meaning files, databases, mailboxes, cron entries, redirect rules and a fresh certificate, with no charge per site and no cap on how many you bring.

How soon is my site online?

A working account reaches you within minutes of payment. Coming from another provider? Give us the login and the transfer is run by our engineers free, usually within a day.

Does free website migration come with SSL?

Nothing at all. Certificates install themselves and re-issue comfortably before they expire.

What if free website migration turns out not to suit me?

The plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee. Say so inside the month and the refund is processed, with no exit interview and no hand-off to a retention team paid to argue.

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