In this WordPress migration tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to transfer your website to a new host for free. I will be breaking the steps down to correctly point in your domain name to your new host, cloning your website and transferring your website over. I will show you how to do all this with just one free, simple WordPress plugin. So let’s get started. Step one, you will need to choose a new hosting provider and sign up for an account I honestly recommend A2 hosting as I have some of my own website hosted with them.
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Now let’s come back to signing up for A2 hosting. I’m just going to go all out here and choose a tab max plan. Click here, get Turbo Max. And here you can choose a new domain name, but you’re probably transferring from another website. So you are entering your existing domain name.
This option now you can type in your current domain name that you want to move to A2 hosting, click on use.
And now for this step, you would select how long you want to purchase it for. I always recommend the longest time frame as A2 hosting allows you to refund at any time within the 36 month and you get the remaining value back if you cancel with them. So there’s absolutely no risk at all. And that’s what I would do with the server location. You would always pick the one that is closest to where your customers are, really need the free SSL and the rest is OK and we could continue to make sure that everything’s OK.
And you’re happy with my discount and quick checkout. Now enter your personal information, your credit card details, accept the terms of service and click complete order. So now you can see we have the confirmation and if we click here, it would take us to our main dashboard. The next step is to install WordPress on our domain. And you can do this by clicking on the cPanel. Log in now. This is just your standard cPanel look.
So it’s very easy to navigate. Now we click on WordPress to optimize, click on install now. Now we choose a domain name. We want to install WordPress, make sure it’s https here. Putting your name description, you can keep it the same as your previous host if you want. And then the user password and you had an email. So make sure you save all this information somewhere safe and then click on install.
And now we can see that WordPress has been installed. However, we still need to point the name server from our old host to the new host so you can see if I click here. This site won’t work yet.
OK, so now that our destination website has been installed, we can go back to our Origin website and clone it. Today’s question for you, what hosting provider are you moving from and why? Let me know in the comments section below.
So the next step is to clone and migrate our website. And the free tool that I’m going to introduce to you here is called WP Vivid. So what’s great about this tool is that there’s no limit to the size of your website. You can transfer any size website without having to upgrade or pay for a higher plan. The reason I bring this up is many other YouTube tutorials similar to this is using a different free tool, but it comes with a catch.
If your website is larger than a certain size, then you will need to upgrade and pay for that tool. So now that’s out the way. Let’s get going in this example. This is my website and domain that I have with Tigran. It’s an org dot com and I want to transfer it from ground to a two hosting. This is my home page. This is what it looks like and I want to transfer it. And this is another example page, which is my about page.

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Allan Borch
Hey I’m Allan, founder of Dotcom Dollar. I started my own successful online business and quit my job in 2015 to travel the world. I started Dotcom Dollar to help aspiring entrepreneurs like you create a successful online business.