Website Migration

A: When your current web hosting provider can no longer match the requirements of your website, or when you face constant network downtime, or if you have to wait for hours for the support staff to get back to you, it may be a good idea to change your hosting provider, i.e. to migrate all the files for your sites as well as your databases from your current provider to your future provider. At Bell Hosting, we know that this can be hard & time–consuming. That’s the reason why we will accomplish all that for you for free!Our highly proficient technical team will transfer your site content from your present web hosting provider to us. Our techs have extensive experience migrating websites and can handle anything – from a normal WordPress weblog or Joomla^™–driven site, to an extremely elaborate, custom–built app.

A: We try to carry out all website migrations as fast as possible. Still, we do not have a set time frame for web site migrations. There are different elements that you have to take into consideration – the very size of your site and the workload of our web site migration staff, etc. We constantly strive to accomplish each migration in less than 48 hours. With less sizeable web sites, our staff typically manages to finish in less than 24 hours.

A: We don’t request any sensitive information. We’ll need, however, the login info for your current web hosting account as well as the name of the site that you would like to migrate.

A: Before we can start the transfer of your web hosting account, you must first open an account with us. Opening an account with us requires that you to share essentially the same information you have provided to your previous web hosting provider. We’ve also got a very strict Privacy Policy, which specifies how private information is handled.

A: Nah. Your web site will remain visible online during the migration. As soon as everything is done on our end, we’ll inform you so that you can preview it and check for any problems. If everything is okay, all you will need to do is edit your domain’s DNS resource records.

A: No. We will never get in touch with your web hosting provider about anything. They won’t be aware of the website migration either.

A: We can transfer your web site from any hosting provider or any Linux–based web hosting platform as long as we can gain access to the Control Panel and there’s FTP access available.The only websites that we cannot transfer are the ones based on closed–source software applications like Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square and Mr Site.