Moving your WordPress website to another provider

Do you have a website but are not satisfied with your current hosting provider? Then you should consider transferring your website to another provider. Moving a WordPress website to another provider may seem very difficult, but if you have a little know-how, it's not that bad.

Do you want to move a WordPress website to another provider?

When you have a website that has WordPress and you want to move it to another provider, you can either do this yourself â€" or leave it to a professional. As mentioned earlier, it is possible to do it yourself, but then you should always set up a backup of your site. And it’s best to then download all the files to your own computer rather than relying on your previous provider’s backup feature or certain plugins.

Having a backup is crucial if you're going to work on moving all your WordPress files yourself. After all, you don't want all your hard work to go to waste or for your site to suffer damage and malfunction. Even if you have a professional move your site, we still recommend backing up all the files. It takes little effort and can prevent a lot of trouble.

How does it work?

Well, moving a WordPress website to another provider works the same as moving any other website. But of course you need to upload all WordPress hosting files to the new database (at your new web host). In addition, you also need to change the ‘wp_config’ file. This file takes care of the link between your hosting provider and your WordPress site. You can modify it by opening it with a simple text editor. Here are the 3 things you need to change in this file:

1. Change the name of the database â€" the ‘db_name’ part should be changed to the name of the new database.

2. Change the database username â€" here you change ‘db_user’ to the correct username of the MySQL user.

3. Change the password â€" ‘db_pass’ should be changed to the password of the user.

In addition to these steps, you will also have to go through all the standard issues that are involved in moving a website to another provider.

Need help? MijnHostingPartner.nl helps you further

Don't see it for yourself to move your WordPress website to another provider? You don't have to. It is a fairly complicated process and there are many things that can go wrong. It is therefore best to leave it to a professional. At MijnHostingPartner.nl we are happy to help you move your WordPress website. Take a look at what hosting packages we offer and see if you are interested in them!