Q: What exactly does website migration mean and what does it entail?

A: When your current hosting provider can no longer meet the necessities of your web site, or when you experience frequent downtime, or if you are made to wait for hours for the customer support staff to respond to you, it may be a smart idea to change your provider, i.e. to transfer all the files for your sites along with your databases from your present provider to your new provider. At albhosting, we are aware that this can often be difficult & time–consuming. This is the reason why we will accomplish all that for you at no cost!Our highly skilled technical team reps will migrate your website content from your present provider to us. Our techs have got broad experience migrating websites and can take care of anything – from a traditional WordPress–based weblog or Joomla–driven site, to a highly elaborate, custom–made web application.

Q: What exactly does website migration mean and what does it entail?
Q: How long will the website migration procedure take?

A: While we cannot give you an exact time window, because there are a lot of variables, among them the physical size of the web 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’ll try our best to move your site within 48h, and in some cases – within 24h (in case the content is not very large).

Q: How long will the website migration procedure take?
Q: What info will I be asked to provide to your Website Migration Department?

A: Yup. We will need to have the name of the web site that you wish us to transfer. We will also need a means to access your current hosting account so that we can get the content associated with your website.

Q: What info will I be asked to provide to your Website Migration Department?
Q: My current hosting account has sensitive data inside. How can I trust you?

A: User privacy is among our main priorities – that’s why, both our payment transaction page and our CP login page are protected with enterprise–level digital certificates. We use security measures, which include, but are not limited to: physical, digital and managerial methods to protect the info that we gather on the Internet. And we also have a detailed and rigid Privacy Policy, which specifies the types of information that we gather.

Q: My current hosting account has sensitive data inside. How can I trust you?
Q: Will there be any downtime for my site?

A: While we move your site, it will be available both in your web hosting account with us and in your account with your old hosting provider. When the migration is finished, we’ll make certain that everything is functioning properly and that the integrity of your web content is not compromised prior to telling you that the transfer is finished. After that, we will instruct you how to move the domain to your hosting account with us and how to modify the DNS records.

Q: Will there be any downtime for my site?
Q: Will my present hosting provider need to provide any information/help?

A: Nope. Apart from your login details for the Control Panel, we won’t need anything. We will never contact your web hosting provider. They will not know anything about the migration either.

Q: Will my present hosting provider need to provide any information/help?
Q: Which web hosting providers can you transfer website content from?

A: Yup. We support all standard Linux–powered web hosting platforms. We do not support Windows–driven hosting platforms, since we do not offer Windows web hosting solutions ourselves.We also don’t support proprietary website creation and management interfaces such as Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square, Mr Site, etc.

Q: Which web hosting providers can you transfer website content from?