Website Migration

A: The website migration service provided by GDS Pro Web Hosting is completely free and consists of moving all your web files, databases and e–mails from your current web hosting provider to your brand–new hosting account with us. We’ll also edit all the settings necessary for your websites to be fully operational on our ultramodern cloud hosting platform.Our techs are fully capable of transferring any kind of site. With years of work experience in this field, they’re experts in the specificities of our web hosting platform, our Control Panel as well as all other commonly used Control Panels. For them, moving a custom–built application with lots of custom libraries is as easy as moving a simple WordPress blog.

A: There are lots of variables to think about – the total amount of web files, the size of the database, the complexity of the website itself and the present workload of our website migration experts, etc. Nonetheless, we do our very best to implement all web site migrations in a 48–hour period. Smaller–sized websites are transferred faster – usually in less than 24 hours.

A: We don’t need any sensitive information. We’ll need, however, the login info for your old web hosting account as well as the name of the site that you’d like to transfer.

A: User privacy is among our top concerns – for this reason, both our payment transaction page and our Control Panel login page are protected with enterprise–grade digital certificates. We use security measures, which include, but are not limited to: physical, electronic and managerial procedures to secure the info that we assemble on the web. And we’ve also got a very detailed and rigorous Privacy Policy, which describes the types of information that we collect.

A: Your site will work just like it did before with your former hosting provider. After we have finished the migration, your web site will be configured to work on our hosting platform and we will ask you to preview it. If everything is working correctly, all you will need to do is change the name server resource records corresponding to your domain. Your website will be transferred to us without any downtime whatsoever.

A: Nah. We’ll never touch base with your hosting provider about anything at all. They will not be aware of the website migration either.

A: We can migrate your site from any web hosting provider or any Linux–based web hosting platform provided that we can obtain access to the Control Panel and there is File Transfer Protocol access available.The only sites that we’re unable to transfer are the ones based on closed–source software apps like Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square and Mr Site.