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Transfer a website from one Infomaniak hosting to another hosting
This guide explains how to move an existing website within an Infomaniak Web Hosting to another Infomaniak Web Hosting.
Automated Solution
There aren't many turnkey solutions for moving a site (indeed, in general few hosting providers offer the export or import of a complete site with its databases. This is mainly because there are many ways to build a site and just as many languages that are rather incompatible with each other).
It is also possible to move a complete Web hosting (read below).
Example of Manual Solution
To do it manually, it is necessary to retrieve the web data as well as the associated databases, in order to republish it on a site created on the destination Web hosting (and if the associated domain name is the same, the first site must be deleted or renamed).
For the rest, here is an example of steps to follow:
- order the other Web hosting / Cloud Server if you haven't already
- create a "dummy site" on this new hosting (e.g. dev.domain.xyz - read more below)
- manually copy your data via FTP and MySQL (export / import)
- adjust your site if necessary (database address, etc.)
- once you are satisfied with the "new site", delete the old one
- change the name of the new site to give it its real name
An alternative is, at point 2 above, to work with the alias www. that you can detach beforehand from your current site. Indeed, the www(.domain.xyz) alias is often installed as an alias of your site, and all you need to do is detach it, which allows the creation of a site on the other hosting with the name www.domain.xyz (don't forget, at point 6, to add your alias of type "domain.xyz" without the www to this new site).
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Moving Entire Web Hostings
There is an automated way to move an Infomaniak Web Hosting to:
- an Infomaniak Cloud Server (if the hosting is currently shared or if the hosting is already on Cloud Server)
- another Infomaniak Organization
A Starter hosting cannot be moved but it can be converted.