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How to transfer website from my current provider to your hosting?

If your website doesn't use MySQL databases, moving your site is very easy. Simply upload all your files to the 'public_html' folder on our server. If you have a PHP website, check if it has any configuration files where domain name or path files to can be set. Update these values if needed.

If your website uses MySQL, you need to move the database here and update the configuration files as well as your scripts.

1. Backup database on old server
If your current provider has some MySQL backup tool - use it. Or you can login to phpMyAdmin of your database and click on 'Export' tab. Choose 'Save as file' and select 'gzipped'. Download of a backup of your database will begin.

2. Creating database on our server
Once the download is finished you will have a file with a name something like yourdatabase.sql.gz. Before you can restore the database you need to create this database on our system. So, please login to our member's area, enter your control panel and click on the MySQL icon. Now choose add database, create MySQL username and finally click on 'Add User To Database' button. Do not forget to write the database details down on paper as you will need them later!

3. Importing database to our server
Once you have database created, enter our phpMyAdmin (you will find it from our control panel). Once you are inside phpMyAdmin for your database click on 'Import' tab. Browse to the backup file of your database (yourdatabase.sql.gz for example) and click 'go'. The database restoring process will begin. Be patient, it can take a lot of time to complete if the size of your backup is large.

4. Updating configuration files
When you have the database restored you need to open the configuration file of your PHP script and update the database host, database name, database username and database password values. Use the values that you wrote down when you created the new database. Note: we use localhost as MySQL host.