Free Migrations
Transferring Your Domain vs Migrating Your Website: What’s the Difference?
Last Updated: January 24, 2025Transferring Your Domain vs Migrating Your Website: What’s the Difference? Congratulations on choosing HostHuski as your new website hosting partner! As you prepare to make the switch, you may have heard two terms thrown around: “domain transfer” and “website migration.” While they’re related, they’re not the same thing. In this article, we’ll break down the differences and guide you through the process of transferring your domain and migrating your website to HostHuski. Transferring Your Domain A domain transfer involves moving your domain name (e.g., hosthuski.com) from your current registrar to a new one. This process updates the global domain name system (DNS) to point to the new registrar. When you transfer your domain to HostHuski, you’ll still need to migrate your website separately. For more details on transferring your domain to HostHuski please see this article. Migrating Your Website Website migration, on the other hand, involves moving your website’s files, databases, and settings from your current hosting provider to HostHuski. This process ensures that your website remains functional and intact on our servers. Steps to Migrate Your Website to HostHuski Checklist you MUST follow before requesting us to migrate your WordPress website for you: Website is a WordPress-based website (login...
About Free Migrations
Last Updated: September 12, 2024At HostHuski we are pleased to provide free inbound migration services to our customers. We can migrate any WordPress site (multi-site networks are currently unsupported) to our servers for you. Usually these migrations happen within the same business day the migration request is submitted. We only ask you consider a limit of 4GB per site. Sites larger than 4GB usually contain old backup files that need to be removed or other unnecessary files or data that should be remedied before moving the site. We are always happy to assist customers in the cleanup process. Our process involves making a backup of the original site and then downloading, transferring and restoring this backup in your new cPanel at HostHuski. Finally, with our Huski wizardry, we are able to deploy and test your site without changing your domain configuration. Once we confirm everything looks good we will tell you the migration is done and then you’re all set! For more details about this process and other good-to-know tidbits, click here.
Submitting Your Migration Request
Last Updated: September 12, 2024We make it easy to submit your migration request directly from our website. We even include an Expert Mode for those in a hurry or who don’t need all the help text and warnings. See a screenshot of our Migration Request form below. Once you’ve filled out the three sections of information requested, we’ll receive your website migration form submission and will begin testing your credentials, first. Let’s break down the three sections in the form that you’ll need to fill out. Domain Registration If you want to have us handle the pointing of your domain (DNS) we are happy to help with that. For those who aren’t familiar with the technical aspect of domain management this can be confusing and discouraging. We try to make it easy for you by doing it for you. If you want the help, we just need to be able to login to your account with your domain provider. If you need help figuring out who your domain provider is you can ask us on Live Chat or a support ticket. We have a way to lookup this information for you. For domain registration credentials we’ll need your username or customer ID number and...
Checking the Status of Your Migration
Last Updated: September 12, 2024Want to know the progress of a migration? You can check any time from the link provided in your email when you submitted the migration. Here, you can see the status of each WordPress migration and the calculated backup size. You can also see what phase of migration the site is in.