Hi guys, Today we’re going to see how you can move
your Wordpress website to a new host. Let’s say you have a wordpress
site and you are not happy with the current hosting provider. Now how do you move this site from your
current hosting provider to a new host? You can do that by watching this video. So after watching this video, You will be able to move your entire
wordpress site to a new host without affecting any of your Website’s content. Okay! So let’s get started. I am Bryan from website learners. And let’s move our wordpress website. First let’s see the website,
which we are going to move. Here it is. Now this is the site, which we
are going to move to the new host. You can see all the
pages and it’s contents. Now, before we move this
site to the new host. Let’s see where our site
is hosted right now. So to check that, Just go to the video you are watching now. And then click this link. And it will take you to this page. This is the page where you can
find your current hosting provider. So on this page, you can find the
hosting of any site. So to find the hosting of your site. Enter your website’s URL in this field. So let’s go to our site. And copy this URL and then paste it here. Now if we click ‘Find hosting’. You can see where this
site is hosted right now. And as you can see, our site
is now hosted on ‘Godaddy’. So now that you know your
current hosting provider. Now how do you move
this site to a new host? So to move your site to a new host. We are going to do 3 steps. The first step is to get your new hosting. Now there are many hosting
providers available on the internet. I am going to choose “WebSpaceKit”
hosting and move my site there. So to get your new
hosting on ‘WebSpaceKit’. Just click the link below this video. And it will take you to ‘WebSpaceKit’ So this is the website where we
are going to get our new hosting. Now go to ‘plans’, And here, you can see that
we have four different plans. Now, if you want to move one
website, you can select this plan. Or, if you want to move multiple
websites, you can select from these plans. As I want to move one
website to this new host, I am going to select this plan. Here, it will ask you to choose a domain. As you can see here, we already
have a domain on our current site. So as we already have a domain, And want to use my existing
domain for the new host. I am going to select this. And here, you need to enter the
same domain name, which is here. So let’s enter that. Once you have entered your domain name. To get the new hosting. Click ‘use’ Now, here you can see that we're
getting a new hosting for 12 months. So to get it. Click ‘Continue’ And then fill up these details. And here, you need to
choose your payment method. I’m going to use my card. So let’s enter our details here. And then click ‘order now’. As you can see, we have successfully placed our order. Now let’s click here. And you can see here, we have
successfully got our new hosting. Once you have purchased your new hosting, ‘WebSpaceKit’ automatically
installs WordPress. Okay! Once you have got your new hosting. You can now go to Step 2, which is to Copy your wordpress site to the new host. So to copy the site to the new host, you need to first login to your website. So to login, Let’s go to our website, And then enter /wp-admin next to your website's address. And press enter. And now it will take you to
the login page of wordpress. Now just login to your site. Okay! So now we have logged in to our
Wordpress site, which is on our old host. Once you have logged in. Now to copy your website, You need to install a plugin
on this Wordpress site. So to install the plugin. Let’s go to plugins. And then click ‘add new’ Now search for a plugin
called “Migrate guru”. And you will get this plugin. So this is the plugin which is
going to help us to copy this wordpress site to the new hosting. Now to install the plugin, Let’s click ‘Install’, And then click ‘Activate’. Okay! So now we’ve successfully
installed the plugin. Once you have installed the plugin. We need to copy this site to our new host. So to copy your site to the new host. Just enter your email address here. And then click “Migrate site”. And it will take you to this
page, where it will ask you to choose your new hosting provider. Based on your hosting you
can select the method, Since webspace kit has cPanel access, I am going to choose this one, So let’s click on it. Now to move your site to your new host, It will ask you to enter these details. Now once you have purchased your new
hosting, you should have received these details in your email. So let’s go to your inbox. And you can see that
we have got this email. Just open it. And you can see here
we have these details. Just copy these details and paste them on your site. So first, let’s copy this
site’s URL and paste it here. Then copy this IP address and paste it here. Next, we need to enter
the cPanel login details. So let’s copy this
username and paste it here. Then copy this password and paste it here. Once you have entered these details. We can now start to copy
our site to the new host. Now before you start copying your site, You need to check if
your new host has SSL. As you can see, we have got free
SSL for the plan we selected. So if your new host has SSL. Make sure that you enter 'https' here. Okay! So once you have entered these details, You can now start copying
your site to the new host. So to copy your site, All you have to do is, click ‘Migrate’. As soon as you click it, You can see that your website is
getting copied to the new host. And once it’s done, you will see this page. Which means your site is now
successfully copied to your new host. Okay! Now we have successfully copied
our site to the new host. To check if our site is
moved to the new host. Let's go back to the
hosting finder tool, And now if we click ‘Find hosting’. You can see that our site is still hosted
on ‘Godaddy’, which is our old host. So this means our site has
not yet moved to the new host. Now we’ve copied all the files
from our old host to the new host. But our domain still points to the old
host and loads our site from there. Now in order to load our site
from the new host, we need to’ point our domain to the new host. So to point our domain to our new host, We need to add the IP Address
of the new host to our domain. Next, let’s go to the final step, which is
to add the new IP Address to our domain. So to get the IP Address of the new host. Let’s go back to our inbox. Here you can see we
have the new IP Address So this is the IP Address which
you need to add to your domain. Since our domain is with ‘Godaddy’, Let’s go to ‘Godaddy’. And click ‘sign in’, Now let’s enter our
‘Godaddy’ account details. And then click ‘sign in’, Now here you will find the
domain of your website. Now to add the new IP
address to this domain. Click ‘DNS’. And here you can see these details. Now you need to add the IP
address to your ‘A’ record. So here you can see that we have
the IP address of the old host. To change this to
‘WebSpaceKit’ IP address, Click here. Now before you change the IP address. Make a note of this old IP address. So that you can use it in case you
want to get back to your old host. Now I am going to copy this and save it to my notepad. Okay! Once you have saved the old IP address. Let’s go back to our inbox. so to add the IP address of the new host. Let’s delete this. And then copy this New ip address And paste it here. Now, if you click ‘save’. Your new IP address will
be added to your domain. Now, if you have multiple A
records on the same IP address, You need to add the IP address
for that A record also. So like we did before, Let’s click here. And delete this. Now paste the new IP address,
which we copied earlier. And then click ‘save’. So now we have successfully added
the new IP address to our domain. And our site will be
moved to the new host. So to check that, Let's go back to ‘Hosting finder’. You can see that previously our
site was hosted on ‘Godaddy’. Now if you click ‘Find Hosting’. You can see that your website
is now hosted on ‘WebSpaceKit’. So this means we have
successfully moved our site from the old host to the new host. Now if we open a new tab, And go to our site, You can see that it has the same
content which we had before. So now we have successfully
moved our site to a new host. You can use the same method for
moving your site to any host. Okay! Next, let’s go to the last
part of this video, which is to activate SSL on your website. Now, if we go to our site, You can see that we don’t have the
‘https’ or the ‘SSL’ lock symbol here. Now as we have free SSL
on our hosting plan. The SSL will automatically get activated
after a few hours on your site. But if you don’t want to wait
for the automatic SSL, and want to enable it immediately, You have an option to
activate it manually. So to activate SSL
immediately on your site. Let’s go to ‘WebSpaceKit’. Now click here, then click ‘cPanel’ And it will take you to this page. Now here search for ‘SSL’. then click this. And you will get this page. Now to activate the SSL. Click here. then click here So now the SSL will be
activated on our site. Now if we go to our site. And click ‘Refresh’ You can see that our site is now secure with ssl Okay! So that’s it, guys. This is how you can move
your website to a new host. Once you moved your site to the new host. Make sure you check all the pages
and see everything loads perfectly. If everything is working fine, Then you can stop the
subscription of the old host. Now, if you are finding any issues
with your site and you want to revert back to the old host. Just enter your old IP address which you have saved on your notepad, into your domain’s DNS page. Now to start migrating
your site to webspace kit, Click the link below this video, You can see that it has a lot of great
features, which you can checkout here. And also, make sure you
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