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Migration On Us

Our engineers run the move. The sign-off belongs to you.

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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What the entire move costs you

24 hrs

Usual time to finish

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Your site offline for

Any

Sites we move per account

What Travels

The entire account, not only the parts you can see

Mail left behind means the move never really happened.

Every file, every database

Document root and databases travel together as one piece, which is why you never end up with an application that half-works. Along with them come the permissions, the cron entries, and the configuration files wiring the two sides together.

Mail accounts and their contents

Accounts, aliases and forwarders all come over, and so do the messages already sitting inside them. Mail is the thing most people forget until the Monday after a switch, which is why it is standard on every move we run.

SSL and redirect rules

Before the cutover, a fresh certificate gets issued at this end, and your redirect rules travel across exactly as written instead of being rebuilt on guesswork.

Your site stays up

From beginning to end, visitors carry on reaching your current host. Our copy waits at a temporary address until you have looked it over and said the word. Aiming DNS at us comes last, never first.

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

Why People Stay Put

The obstacle is the move itself. So we took it away.

Most people who want to leave a host never actually leave. The site works, more or less, and one afternoon lost to a half-restored database feels worse than another whole year spent waiting on slow pages. What a poor host is really selling you is exactly that calculation.

Shaving the fee would have shifted nobody, so we took out the risk instead. An engineer builds the copy at this end while your existing host carries on answering every visitor. You review the result at a temporary address. The DNS change happens on your word, and not one 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, and the final word is yours

  1. 1

    Point us at the site

    Pick a plan, then open a ticket carrying either your existing panel login or a backup archive. There is nothing more to buy, and no migration fee sitting there awaiting your approval.

  2. 2

    We rebuild it here

    Into the new account go the files, the databases and the mail, all reachable at a temporary address so you can test them. Throughout, your old host keeps answering every genuine visitor.

  3. 3

    You approve, then we turn it

    Give that copy a proper going-over. Content with it? Send the name our way and we watch propagation until it settles down. Anything wrong gets put right while you are still on the old host, not after you have walked away from it.

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

Where You Land

Moving makes no sense unless the place you land on is quicker

Your files land on NVMe storage running LiteSpeed inside our London datacentre. Cached pages come back quicker than before, and so do database queries, compared with the crowded shared machine most sites arrive from. A speed test run the same afternoon usually shows it plainly.

Everything else rides along at no extra cost: free SSL, a daily copy, the name's first year, and a 99.9% uptime target backed by a pro-rated credit should we ever fall short. None of it is an extra you stumble on at 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.

  • A login for the cPanel, or similar panel, you have now
  • Or a complete backup, where handing credentials over feels wrong to you
  • The name itself, and access to whoever controls its DNS records
  • A warning about anything odd: bespoke cron, a staging build, a stray redirect
  • Your preferred window, in case trading hours rule some of them out
  • Someone at your end who can sign the copy off before we cut over

After The Switch

The week that follows, and what to watch out for

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

Do not switch the old hosting off straight away; give it a few days. Propagation takes time to settle, and during that stretch part of your audience arrives at the new server while part finds the old one. Collecting a message that landed in the old mailbox is far simpler than trying to recreate it.

Check your forms. Of everything on a site, contact forms and order notifications are likeliest to be aimed at an address nobody watches any more, and they fail without a sound: no error page, just an enquiry that never turns up.

Then take a measurement before you cancel anything. Run a speed test against the new server so that you compare figures rather than impressions. Should something read slower than it ought to, open a ticket. Our first reply lands within 2 hours, or within 1 hour when a site is down.

Queries

The switch, explained

Is it genuinely free? Where is the catch?

There is not one. It comes with every plan, entry-level included: no migration fee, no per-site charge, no minimum contract tied to it. Call that commercial logic rather than charity, because dread of the move is the main reason people stay with a host they cannot stand, and we took that obstacle away. Here is where the line sits. We will not rebuild your site for nothing, redesign it, or repair software that turned up already broken.

What sort of timescale?

Give us access and an ordinary site will be copied and standing ready for review within 24 hours. Longer for busy stores, for mail stores running to many gigabytes, and for accounts holding dozens of separate sites, and you hear about that at the start, not once the job has overrun. As for DNS, throwing the switch is a matter of seconds. What governs how soon every last visitor reaches the new server is the TTL on your existing records, so if you have the chance, drop that the day before.

Does my site drop offline?

It does not, and the whole method exists to guarantee that. Your copy gets assembled in the new account while the old one carries on answering every request, and the outside world notices no change until you have inspected it and said go. Propagation is the one gap nobody can avoid, when part of your audience lands on the old server and part on the new. That is exactly why both stay live, and why we ask you to hold off on cancelling the old hosting for a few days afterwards.

My current host is flatly refusing to release anything.

The data is yours by right, and when asked, the great majority of hosts simply hand a backup over. Should yours prove stubborn, generate a full cPanel backup yourself and we have plenty to work from. Failing even that, an FTP copy alongside a database dump will usually let us rebuild the thing. Write out a list of whatever you can actually reach, send it across, and we will tell you plainly whether it will do. That comes before you spend a penny.

Does this work if my host is not cPanel?

It does. This team handles Plesk, DirectAdmin, A2, managed WordPress services and bare FTP-with-MySQL setups as routine. Nothing hangs on which panel is underneath; readable files and exportable databases are the whole requirement. Counting by volume, the applications arriving most often are WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, OpenCart and Laravel.

Does the mail come across too?

It does, though do ask for it in so many words. Alongside the site come the mailboxes, the aliases, and every message already sitting in them. Where a move falls apart a week later, mail left behind on the old server is almost always the culprit: somebody eventually spots that form submissions keep landing on a machine nobody pays for.

Prefer to drive it yourself?

Stuck with 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

Getting going takes three 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

Thrown in without an extra charge

  • 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
  • Canadian-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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