Website Migration
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Q: What exactly does website migration mean and what does it involve?
A: The web site migration service that our company is offering is free of charge (to a certain extent). We will migrate your site(s) to our ultramodern cloud hosting platform without you needing to do anything. We know from personal experience that switching hosting providers can result in lost information and unwanted downtime. That is why we’ll perform all that for you at no cost!We’ve got skillful administrators whose chief assignment is to ensure that your site works exactly as it did on your former hosting platform. The administrators are well–versed in transferring custom–made sites, as well as sites that are based on popular apps such as Joomla™ and WordPress.
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Q: How long will it take for my web site to be moved over to your platform?
A: While we can’t give you a precise time frame, because there are many variables, including the physical size of the files and databases, the location of the current host’s server, the complexity of your site and the current workload of our Website Migration Department, etc., we will give our very best to move your web site within 48 hours, and in certain cases – within 24 hours (when the website content is not large).
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Q: Do you require anything from me before you start transferring my website?
A: We do not require any sensitive info. We will require, though, the login information for your present web hosting account and the name of the web site that you’d like to transfer.
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Q: My present web hosting account has sensitive data inside. How can I rely on you?
A: Our Privacy Policy is an inseparable part of the contract that we will have with you as a customer. We are focused on safeguarding the security of the private information obtained from the customers. To do this, we employ technical safety measures to avoid the loss, the misapplication, the alteration or the unauthorized disclosure of the information under our control. The security measures include, but are not limited to: physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the info that we assemble on the Internet. When we request clients to present financial information (for example, a credit card number), this info is encrypted using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.
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Q: Will my web site be offline during the transfer?
A: Your web site will work just like it did before with your old hosting provider. As soon as we are done with the migration, your website will be configured to work on our hosting platform and we will ask you to preview it. If it is working correctly, all you will need to do is edit the NS records corresponding to your domain name. Your site will be migrated over to us with no downtime whatsoever.
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Q: Will my old web hosting provider find out that I am leaving them?
A: Nope. We’ll never contact your hosting provider about anything at all. They will not be aware of the web site transfer either.
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Q: Which web hosting platforms do you support?
A: We support all Linux–driven hosting platforms. Essentially, if we can acquire access to your Control Panel, we will be able to migrate your website.The only platforms that we don’t support are closed–source web site creation platforms such as Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square, Mr Site, etc.