Website Migration
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Q: Why should I move my web site? What does web site migration involve?
A: The website migration service on offer at FreeSpeechWebHosting.com is absolutely free of cost and consists of transferring all your files, databases and e–mails from your current provider to your brand–new hosting account with us. We will also edit all the configuration settings needed for your sites to be completely functional on our ultramodern cloud hosting platform.Our technicians are fully capable of moving any type of site. With years of work experience in the industry, they’re well–versed in the inner workings of our cloud hosting platform, our Control Panel as well as all other commonly used Control Panels. For them, transferring a custom app with lots of custom libraries is as elementary as transferring a simple WordPress blog.
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Q: Web site migration sounds like lots of work. How long can it take?
A: While we cannot give you an exact time interval, because there are plenty of factors, among them the size of the web files and databases, the location of the current host’s server, the complexity of your web site and the present workload of our Website Migration Department, etc., we’ll give our best to move your web site within 48h, and in certain cases – within 24h (when the website content is not large).
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Q: What info will I be required to provide to your Website Migration Department?
A: We’ll need the login information for your current web hosting provider’s Control Panel and the website’s name (domain name).
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Q: The login details for my hosting account are delicate. How can I trust you?
A: Our Privacy Policy is an indivisible part of the contract that we will have with you as a customer. We’re focused on protecting the security of the private details gathered from the clients. To do this, we use technical safety measures so as to avoid the loss, the misapplication, the alteration or the unauthorized leakage of the personal data under our control. The measures include, but are not limited to: physical, electronic and administrative operations to protect and secure the data that we acquire on the Internet. When we request users to provide financial information (for instance, a debit card number), this info is masked using the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption technique.
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Q: What about downtime? Will my website be unavailable?
A: While we migrate your site, it will be available both in your web hosting account with us and in your account with your previous hosting provider. Once the transfer is done, we will make sure that everything is working correctly and that the integrity of your web content is not compromised prior to telling you that the migration is completed. After that, we will tell you how to transfer the domain name over to your hosting account with us and how to update your DNS settings.
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Q: Will my present hosting provider learn that I am leaving them?
A: Nope. Apart from your login credentials for the Control Panel, we don’t need anything. We’ll never touch base with your hosting provider. They won’t know anything about the migration either.
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Q: Does it make a difference what platform my current hosting provider is using?
A: We can transfer your web site from any web hosting provider or any Linux–powered web hosting platform given that we can get access to the Control Panel and there’s File Transfer Protocol access available.The only web sites that we’re unable to migrate are those based on closed–source software apps such as Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square and Mr Site.