What is a Site Migration
Coping all data/content from one hosting provider to another:
- Website files
- E-mail messages
- Databases
- cPanel settings (for cPanel-based accounts)
A site migration does not affect the existing, functioning site. Content is merely duplicated, not removed. In order for the site at the migration destination to become the new “active” site, the domain's name servers must be updated to point to the new server hosting the migrated content.
A site migration can take anywhere from a few hours to a day or two, depending on how much content there is to migrate.
