Website Migration
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Q: Why should I move my web site? What does website migration consist of?
A: When your present hosting provider can no longer satisfy the necessities of your web site, or if you face frequent network downtime, or if you are forced to wait for hours for the customer support team to respond to you, it might be a good idea to change your hosting provider, i.e. to transfer all the files for your websites along with your databases from your present provider to your new provider. At HostingDemand.com, we understand that this can often be hard and time–consuming. Because of this, we will accomplish all that for you at no cost!Our skillful technical team members will move your website content from your current web hosting provider to us. Our techs have got plenty of experience with website migration and are able to take care of anything – from a standard WordPress–powered weblog or Joomla™ site, to a highly elaborate, custom–made web app.
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Q: How much time will it take for my web site to be migrated over to your platform?
A: While we can’t give you an exact ETA, since there are a lot of factors, including the physical size of the web files and databases, the physical location of the present host’s server, the complexity of your site and the present workload of our Website Migration Department, etc., we’ll do our best to migrate your web site within 48 hours, and in some cases – within 24 hours (if the content is not large).
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Q: Do you need something from me before you begin moving my site?
A: Yup. We’ll need the name of the site that you want us to move. We’ll also need a way to access your present web hosting account so that we can get the content associated with your web site.
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Q: You will access delicate data. How can I be sure that you won’t misuse it?
A: User privacy is indeed one of our primary concerns – this is why, both our payment transaction page and our CP login page are secured with enterprise–level Secure Sockets Layer certificates. We use security measures, which include, but are not limited to: physical, electronic and administrative procedures to safeguard the information that we receive online. And we have a very detailed and strict Privacy Policy, which describes the types of information that we gather.
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Q: What about downtime? Will my site be offline?
A: Your web site will continue to work exactly like it did before with your former hosting provider. As soon as we have completed the transfer, your web site will be configured to work on our system and we’ll ask you to preview it. If it is functioning correctly, all you will need to do is change the NS resource records associated with your domain name. Your web site will be migrated to us with no downtime whatsoever.
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Q: Will my old web hosting provider have to do anything?
A: Nope. We will never touch base with your hosting provider about anything. They will not be aware of the website transfer either.
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Q: Which hosting platforms do you support?
A: Yup. We support all common Linux–based hosting platforms. We don’t support Windows–based web hosting platforms, because we don’t provide Windows hosting solutions ourselves.We also don’t support proprietary website creation and administration interfaces such as Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square, Mr Site, etc.