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Migration Is The Single Riskiest Moment In Your Website's Life

Nothing about running a website is riskier than moving it. A migration touches every layer of your stack at once — DNS records that control where traffic goes, the database connection strings your application relies on to find its data, and the mail routing that decides whether a customer's password reset email actually reaches their inbox. Get any one of these wrong and the failure isn't quiet: visitors hit a blank page, checkout forms stop saving orders, or entire inboxes go dark for hours while messages bounce or vanish. DNS propagation alone can take anywhere from a few minutes to 48 hours depending on TTL settings and how aggressively upstream resolvers cache old records, which means a rushed cutover can leave some visitors looking at your new site while others are still hitting the old one, sometimes with half-synced data on each side.

Most "free" migration tools on the market are automated plugins that copy files and call it done. They don't verify that your database actually connects after the move, they don't check that every plugin and theme dependency resolved correctly, and they almost never touch email, which is exactly the part most likely to break. DomainHost migrations are handled by a human specialist from start to finish, not a script running unattended. That person reviews your current environment, flags anything unusual, including custom cron jobs, non-standard PHP extensions, and hardcoded absolute paths, before touching anything, and builds your new environment to match rather than assuming a generic template will work.

The core of our process is what we call a staged cutover. We build and fully populate your new environment on our infrastructure while your existing site keeps running untouched and continues serving live traffic. We test the new environment directly, loading pages, submitting forms, checking database reads and writes, and confirming SSL, using a temporary URL or a local hosts-file override, so nothing is verified after the fact. Only once that environment passes every check do we touch DNS, and even then, MX records for email are switched separately and last, after we've confirmed mail flow end-to-end, so inboxes never go dark mid-transfer.

• ✔ Specialist-led staged cutover, not an automated plugin
• ✔ New environment fully tested before DNS ever changes
• ✔ MX records for email switched last, after verification
• ✔ Free for single-site hosting customers

What's Actually Included In Your Migration

What actually gets moved depends on the platform, and our specialists handle each one differently rather than running one generic script against everything. For WordPress and WooCommerce sites, we migrate the full wp-content directory, themes, plugins, and uploads, along with a clean database export and import, then re-map the site URL and any hardcoded paths in the database so images, permalinks, and payment gateway callbacks continue working immediately after cutover. WooCommerce stores get extra attention to order history, product variations, and any custom database tables added by extensions like membership plugins or subscription tools, which generic migration plugins routinely miss.

Magento stores and custom PHP or Node.js applications require matching the runtime environment as closely as the code itself: PHP version, required extensions, Composer or npm dependencies, environment variables, and any background workers or queue processors your application depends on. We inventory your current server's configuration before building the new one, so a Magento store running a specific PHP version with particular Redis and Elasticsearch configurations lands on an environment that matches, rather than discovering a version mismatch after go-live. For custom applications, we ask for, or extract, a dependency manifest and replicate the deployment steps you'd normally run, including any build process, so the migrated app isn't just files sitting in a folder but a fully working, tested instance.

Email migration follows its own separate track using IMAP synchronization rather than a flat file copy, which means every folder, subfolder, and message, read or unread, including anything already filed away, gets pulled directly from each mailbox on the old server into the matching mailbox on ours, preserving message state instead of just dumping raw files. This runs while the old mail server keeps accepting mail normally, so nothing sent during the sync window is lost. Only after we've confirmed that every mailbox synced completely and test messages deliver correctly in both directions do we cut over the MX records, which is deliberately the very last step of any migration. By that point your new mail environment is a verified, live-tested replica, not an untested destination.