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Migration On Us

Our engineers do the move. Your only job is the sign-off.

No charge to shift your files, databases, mailboxes and settings — typically wrapped up within a day, while your current site keeps answering visitors.

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Price of the whole move

24 hrs

Usual time to finish

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Your site offline for

Any

Sites we move per account

What Travels

The entire account, not just the visible bits

Leave the mail behind and you have not really moved.

Every file, every database

Document root and databases travel as one unit, so you never end up with an application that only half-works. Permissions, cron entries and the config files wiring the two together are copied along with them.

Mail accounts and their contents

Every account, alias and forwarder comes over, plus the messages already stored in them. Mail is what most people overlook until the Monday morning after a switch, so it is standard on every move here.

SSL and redirect rules

We issue a new SSL certificate on our side ahead of the cutover, and your existing redirect rules are transferred exactly as written rather than reconstructed from guesswork.

Your site stays up

Visitors carry on hitting your current host from start to finish. Our copy sits on a temporary address until you have reviewed it and given the word; pointing DNS at us happens last, never first.

A website being carried across to its new host from a laptop

Why People Stay Put

The move is the obstacle. So we took it away.

Most people who want to leave a host never do. The site works, more or less, and an afternoon lost to a half-restored database feels worse than another year of waiting on slow pages. That calculation is the real thing a poor host is selling you.

Discounting the fee would not have shifted it, so we removed the risk instead. An engineer assembles the copy here while your existing host keeps answering every visitor. You review it on a temporary address. The DNS change happens when you say it does, and not a moment sooner.

  • No migration fee on any plan
  • Your copy is built while the old site serves
  • You test it before anything changes
  • DNS moves last, never first

The Process

Three stages, and the final call is yours

  1. 1

    Point us at the site

    Pick a plan, then raise a ticket with either your existing panel login or a backup archive. Nothing extra to purchase, and no migration fee sitting there waiting for your approval.

  2. 2

    We rebuild it here

    Your new account receives the files, the databases and the mail, all reachable at a temporary address for testing. Throughout, the old host keeps answering every real visitor.

  3. 3

    You approve, then we flip it

    Give the copy a proper going-over. Happy with it? Send the domain our way and we watch the propagation until it settles. Anything wrong gets sorted while you are still on the old host, not afterwards.

A performance-test needle sweeping hard to the right

Where You Land

A move is only worth making if the destination is quicker

Your files arrive on NVMe storage running LiteSpeed in our London datacentre. Cached pages and database queries both come back faster than they did on the crowded shared box most sites arrive from, which is usually visible in a speed test the same afternoon.

Everything else travels with them at no extra cost: free SSL, daily backups, a free domain for the first year, and 99.9% uptime backed by a pro-rated credit if we ever fall short of it. None of that is an extra you discover at the checkout.

  • NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed on every plan
  • London datacentre
  • Free SSL issued before the cutover
  • Daily backups running from day one

Your Side

What gets us started

Six items, and you likely have most already.

  • Login details for your existing cPanel or similar panel
  • Or a complete backup, if handing over credentials feels wrong
  • The domain name, plus access to whoever controls its DNS
  • A heads-up on anything odd: bespoke cron, a staging build, a stray redirect
  • A preferred window, if the site cannot move during trading hours
  • A person on your side to sign the copy off before we cut over

After The Switch

The week that follows, and what to keep an eye on

Three habits that separate a clean move from one you are still unpicking a fortnight later.

Leave the old hosting running for a few days. While propagation settles, some visitors reach the new server and some still land on the old one — and a message delivered to the old mailbox is far easier to collect than to recreate.

Check your forms. Contact forms and order notifications are the two things most likely to be aimed at an address nobody watches any more, and they fail quietly: no error page, just an enquiry that never turns up.

Then measure before you cancel anything. Run a speed test on the new server so you are comparing numbers rather than impressions. If something reads slower than it should, open a ticket — first reply lands within 2 hours, or 1 hour when a site is down.

Queries

The switch, explained

Is it actually free? Where is the catch?

There isn't one. Every plan gets it, the entry-level one included — no migration fee, no charge per site, no minimum contract bolted on. That is commercial logic rather than charity: dread of the move is the main reason people stay put with a host they cannot stand, so we took the obstacle away. Where the line sits: we won't rebuild your site for nothing, redesign it, or repair software that turned up already broken.

What sort of timescale?

Give us access and the average site is copied and ready for your review inside 24 hours. Busy stores, mail stores running to many gigabytes, and accounts holding dozens of separate sites need longer — you'll hear that up front, not once the job has overrun. Flipping DNS itself takes seconds. How quickly every visitor sees the new server comes down to the TTL on your current DNS records, so drop it the day before if you get the chance.

Does my site drop offline?

No, and the whole method exists to guarantee that. The copy is assembled on your new account while the old one carries on answering every request, and nothing changes for the outside world until you have inspected it and told us to go. The single unavoidable gap is propagation, when part of your audience lands on the old server and part on the new one — which is exactly why both stay live, and why we ask you to hold off cancelling the old hosting for a few days afterwards.

My current host is refusing to release anything.

The data belongs to you, and the vast majority of hosts will produce a backup when asked. Where yours digs its heels in, a full cPanel backup you generate for yourself gives us plenty to work with. Even without that, an FTP copy paired with a database dump is usually enough to reconstruct things. Send us a list of what you can lay hands on and we'll say straight out whether it is enough — before you spend anything.

Does this work if my host isn't cPanel?

It does. Plesk, DirectAdmin, A2, managed WordPress services and bare FTP-plus-MySQL arrangements are all everyday work here. The panel underneath makes no difference — all we need is readable files and exportable databases. By volume, the platforms we handle most are WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, OpenCart and Laravel.

Does the email come across too?

It does, and please do ask us to include it. Mailboxes, aliases and the messages already in them travel alongside the site. Leaving mail behind on the old server is the classic reason a migration unravels seven days later, when someone spots that form submissions are still landing on a server nobody is paying for.

Prefer to drive it yourself?

Tied to a host you have outgrown?

Choose a plan, hand us the login, and we run the transfer at no cost. You still get thirty days to change your mind.

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Nobody stays with a host they have outgrown out of loyalty. They stay because the move looks like a lost weekend and a database that only half restores. So our engineers do the move, and you keep the weekend. Your site sits on NVMe drives with LiteSpeed caching and a 99.9% uptime SLA our monitoring desk is held to.

It suits owners stuck on a host they have already outgrown, and the essentials come fitted rather than upsold: free SSL on every domain, migration handled by our team, daily backups, and support on call at any hour.

What our engineers actually move

Hand over the login for your current panel — or a full backup, if sharing credentials sits badly — and the account is rebuilt here in one piece: document root, databases, cron entries, redirect rules, mailboxes and the messages already inside them. The rebuild runs on a temporary address while you click through it, so the switch happens on evidence rather than hope. cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, managed WordPress and a plain FTP-plus-MySQL arrangement are all routine; the panel you are leaving matters far less than whether the files can be read and the databases exported.

Monitoring never blinks. If a machine falters, an engineer is on it before your site registers a hiccup — that is how a 99.9% uptime figure keeps meaning something.

Free means free — and here is where the line sits

Check the price once and you are done. Renewal mirrors sign-up, promo rates are marked as promos, and the renewal figure sits right beside them so you can run the maths yourself. Every hosting plan includes a 30-day money-back guarantee, so a test run risks nothing but an afternoon.

Migration is free on every plan, the entry tier included, with nothing charged per site and no term to sign for it. Most sites are copied and ready for review inside 24 hours. Where a job is genuinely larger — a busy store, a mail archive running to gigabytes, an account holding dozens of sites — you get the realistic estimate before we start rather than an apology once it has overrun.

An aisle of racks inside the London datacentre

Where your site lands

Your files land on NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed in our London datacentre, with the certificate issued on our side before the cutover and a daily backup running from the first night. The 99.9% uptime commitment and its pro-rated credit apply from the moment DNS points here, not from some later date when the account counts as settled.

Patching belongs to us. Our engineers roll kernel updates, panel releases and PHP versions across the fleet, so staying current never rests on your memory.

  • Files, databases, mailboxes and settings in one pass
  • DNS moves last, once you have signed the copy off
  • LiteSpeed serving off 100% NVMe storage
  • DDoS traffic filtered at the network edge

Good to Know

More that's built in

The cutover is your call

Your old host keeps serving every visitor until you have tested the copy and said go. Nothing switches to our schedule.

SSL included free

HTTPS is set up on each domain — free to issue, free to renew, for the life of the account.

Zero-cost transfers

Our team shifts your existing site over at no charge, usually inside a day.

A restore point daily

Daily backups need no scheduling, so a botched update costs minutes rather than data.

Humans on the line

Engineers cover the queue at every hour, aiming to reply within 2 hours, or 1 hour if the site is offline.

Next year costs the same

Every plan renews at the rate you started on — no second price waiting down the road.

Getting Going

Set up in three quick steps

  1. 1

    Pick the plan

    Choose the tier that suits the site as it stands today; the move itself adds nothing to the bill whichever one you take.

  2. 2

    Hand over access

    Open a ticket with your current panel login or a backup archive, and flag anything unusual — custom cron, a staging build, a redirect chain somebody added years ago.

  3. 3

    Test, then switch

    Work through the copy on its temporary address: pages, forms, mailboxes. Give the word and we repoint DNS, then watch the propagation until it settles.

In Every Plan

Bundled in at no extra cost

  • 30 days to change your mind on any hosting plan
  • No migration fee on any plan, at any number of sites
  • Most sites copied and ready to review inside 24 hours
  • Accounts provisioned minutes after checkout
  • Upgrade tiers without your files going anywhere
  • UK-registered company, pricing in US dollars
  • Shaped around owners stuck on a host they have already outgrown
  • Every hosted domain gets SSL free

Still Curious

Questions that keep coming up

What is not included in a free migration?

Rebuilding, redesigning and repair work. We move what exists and make it run properly here; a plugin that was broken on the old server arrives broken, and we say so rather than quietly rewriting a site nobody asked us to touch. Everything structural is included on every plan — files, databases, mailboxes, cron entries, redirect rules and a fresh certificate — with no charge per site and no cap on how many you bring across.

How soon is my site online?

You get a working account within minutes of payment. Coming from another provider? Hand us the login and our engineers run the transfer free, usually inside a day.

Does free website migration come with SSL?

Nothing to pay. Certificates install automatically and re-issue themselves comfortably ahead of expiry.

What if free website migration is not right for me?

The plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee. Say the word within the month and the refund goes through — no exit interview, no hand-off to a retention team paid to argue with you.

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