Q: Why should I transfer my site? What does web site migration include?

A: The website migration service available at 7Host Web Hosting is absolutely free and involves transferring all your website files, databases and e–mails from your present hosting provider to your new web hosting account with us. We will also update all the configuration settings necessary for your websites to be fully operational on our super–modern cloud hosting platform.Our technicians are fully capable of transferring any kind of site. With years of practical experience in this field, they are experts in the specificities of our cloud hosting platform, our Control Panel as well as all other well–known Control Panels. For them, moving a custom–built web application with numerous custom libraries is as elementary as transferring a plain WordPress blog.

Q: Why should I transfer my site? What does web site migration include?
Q: Web site migration sounds like lots of work. Just how long is it going to take?

A: We try to accomplish all web site migrations ASAP. Still, we don’t have a fixed time frame for website migrations. There are different variables that you have to take into account – the actual size of your website and the workload of our web site migration team, etc. We always strive to implement each migration within 48 hours. With smaller web sites, our staff typically manages to finish in under 24 hours.

Q: Web site migration sounds like lots of work. Just how long is it going to take?
Q: My privacy is vital to me. What info do you need?

A: We’ll require the login information for your current web hosting provider’s Control Panel along with the website’s name (domain name).

Q: My privacy is vital to me. What info do you need?
Q: I give you access to sensitive info. How can I be sure that you won’t abuse it?

A: Before we can begin the transfer of your web hosting account, you must already have an account with us. Opening an account with us requires that you to disclose the exact same details you have given to your current host. We also have a very rigorous Privacy Policy, which specifies how private data is used.

Q: I give you access to sensitive info. How can I be sure that you won’t abuse it?
Q: Will my website be offline during the migration?

A: While we move your site, it will be available both in your web hosting account with us and in your account with your old hosting provider. Once the migration is finished, we will make sure that everything is functioning properly and that the integrity of your web content is not affected before informing you that the migration is finished. Then we will instruct you how to move the domain over to your web hosting account with us and how to edit the DNS settings.

Q: Will my website be offline during the migration?
Q: Will my present hosting provider need to do anything?

A: Nope. We will never get in touch with your hosting provider about anything. They won’t be aware of the web site migration either.

Q: Will my present hosting provider need to do anything?
Q: Which hosting providers can you transfer web content from?

A: We can migrate your web site from any hosting provider or any Linux–based web hosting platform given that we can obtain access to the Control Panel and there’s FTP access available.The only websites that we’re unable to migrate are the ones based on closed–source software apps such as Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square and Mr Site.

Q: Which hosting providers can you transfer web content from?