HostGator to SiteGround – My Web-Hosting Migration Experience 2018

I trust it was in the last quarter of 2009 when I began utilizing Hostgator as my facilitating administration. From that point forward I have bought more than 5 facilitating bundles from Hostgator and have facilitated in excess of ten WordPress websites with them.

Without a doubt, Hostgator's facilitating quality is great. Of late, in any case, their client bolster has begun to baffle me.

For as long as year, I have needed to move my locales from Hostgator, and attempt another web facilitating organization for my WordPress blog. In this post, I will share what I encountered while changing facilitating organizations. I have included couple of bits of knowledge that might be useful to you on the off chance that you choose to change your host sooner or later.

HostGator To SiteGround

No doughnuts For me: facilitating restoration expenses

A month ago I got an email from Hostgator for a facilitating restoration installment. I had just two days to make the installment, and this gave me the difficulty of expecting to choose whether to remain with Hostgator or move far from them.

Dissimilar to the rebates offered when you agree to accept another record, there is no markdown offered for facilitating restorations. My half year facilitating reestablishment with Hostgator cost me about $60, which is $10/month, and I would not like to pay that sum. So I chose to move far from Hostgator.

I additionally needed to experiment with the Duplicator module for moving WordPress, so gave me another motivation to make a move.

In this instructional exercise, I will share what I encountered when I moved five WordPress locales from Hostgator to SiteGround's facilitating administration. I will likewise share a couple of imperative things I learned while making this move, and I will give you a look into Siteground's facilitating administration also.

A couple of words about Siteground:

Siteground Varnish Cache

I had heard numerous extraordinary things about SiteGround, and taking a gander at the innovation they are putting forth for their common facilitating servers; I was immediately motivated to attempt their administration. Once such piece of innovation is Varnish Cache. Varnish Cache is a web application quickening agent which I had utilized as a part of the past when I was facilitating ShoutMeLoud on my private VPS (Virtual Private Server). Varnish Cache is one purpose for blazingly quick site stacking and is among the reasons I needed to attempt Siteground. Siteground is additionally a non-EIG facilitating administration, yet another explanation behind me to try their facilitating administration out.

Moving my WordPress site from Hostgator to Siteground:

When I felt certain that the time had come to move far from Hostgator, I bought Siteground facilitating for a long time at a 60% marked down value utilizing this connection. At first, I thought about getting it for one year, yet I immediately understood that I would pay an excessive amount of for the second year's reestablishment.

Tip: If you need to save money on web facilitating, dependably buy it for a 2-3 year term, since you might be offered a rebate on your first facilitating bill. (You can read more about it here.)

Afte obtaining the facilitating, I began searching for relocation choices. Siteground offers free site relocation, which is very helpful for non-specialized clients. For my situation, I needed to relocate my WordPress blog myself, so I utilized the Duplicator module to begin moving the website.

You can read the instructional exercise here: How to utilize Duplicator module to move a WordPress site

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Moving the principal site took additional time since I was utilizing the Duplicator module out of the blue. From that point forward, moving the rest of the destinations was very simple.

The issue with moving destinations, and assistance from Siteground's facilitating support:

I was worn out subsequent to moving four locales, and I requested that Siteground bolster move the last site from Hostgator to Siteground for me. I rounded out the relocation from inside my Siteground cPanel, and included all the login subtle elements:

siteground free relocation

Subsequent to rounding out the frame, I speculated that it may take 2-3 days to complete the relocation. Amazingly, I got an answer inside 3 minutes.

Siteground client reaction

I re-confirmed the login points of interest, and I sent the new accreditations for my Hostgator cPanel. Inside 10 minutes I got a reaction from Siteground bolster expressing as takes after:

"As you may know our free site exchange advancement is for 1 site that is under 1 GB of information. In the event that you need us to continue with the exchange you should diminish the measure of your record with HostGator or you can pay an extra site exchange charge of 49.95 USD for this exchange."

Siteground moved WordPress locales

Since I had just relocated four locales, I had erased the information of the moved destinations, and the extent of my Hostgator facilitating account was diminished to 3Gb which they happily moved over to their facilitating.

So far I'm extremely content with Siteground's client bolster, as they completed a marvelous activity to guarantee that my destinations were legitimately relocated. I revealed to them that my facilitating was going to lapse in 12 hours, and they relocated the primary site to my Siteground facilitating inside 5 hours. Moreover, they took an entire reinforcement of my current destinations on Hostgator, and spared it to my facilitating account so that if Hostgator close down my record, I will at present approach my other locales' reinforcement.

Inside five hours I had moved every one of the five of my WordPress locales to Siteground facilitating. Since I was utilizing Cloudflare to deal with my DNS, the Name server engendering happened in a flash.

In conclusion.

I'm really content with my choice to have my destinations on Siteground. So far I have valued their client bolster which ordinarily answers inside five minutes of making a ticket. I likewise have the alternative of connecting with their benevolent help group by means of live talk.

I utilize "agreeable" in light of the fact that their help group addresses a client just as he is a companion, and they appear to think about all client concerns whether they are identified with Siteground's facilitating or to the client's destinations which are facilitated on their server.

Most facilitating organizations won't offer help for locales facilitated on their server, however Siteground is a special case, and this is valued.

Recommended read: Check out the means to introduce a WordPress blog on Siteground facilitating

With this movement, I have found another facilitating organization that I can prescribe to my perusers.

In the event that you have been wanting to move your destinations from your current facilitating organization, you will do well to think about moving to Siteground.

In fact, don't pay a premium for facilitating restorations, when you can move your site to other facilitating organizations at a marked down cost.

Fill me in regarding whether you have as of late relocated your site starting with one facilitating administration then onto the next. Reveal to us the specifics of your experience utilizing the remarks area underneath.

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