Website Migration

A: The web site migration service provided by Grand Island Web Hosting is absolutely free of charge and involves transferring all your web files, databases and e–mails from your current provider to your brand–new web hosting account with us. We will also edit all the configuration settings required for your websites to be completely functional on our cutting–edge cloud hosting platform.Our techs are completely capable of moving any sort of web site. With years of experience behind their backs, they’re experts in the inner workings of our web hosting platform, our Control Panel as well as all other well–known Control Panels. For them, moving a custom–made web application with lots of custom libraries is as elementary as moving a plain WordPress–based weblog.

A: There are a lot of aspects to think about – the overall amount of files, the physical size of the database, the complexity of the site itself and the current workload of our web site migration experts, etc. Having said that, we do try to perform all website migrations in a 48–hour time period. Less sizeable sites are transferred faster – usually in under 24 hours.

A: We will require the login information for your current hosting provider’s Control Panel as well as the web site’s name (domain name).

A: Customer privacy is truly one of our chief concerns – that is why, both our payment transaction page and our Control Panel login page are protected with enterprise–grade Secure Sockets Layer certificates. We use security measures, which include, but are not limited to: physical, digital and managerial procedures to secure the information that we gather on the World Wide Web. And we’ve got a detailed and rigorous Privacy Policy, which outlines the types of information that we gather.

A: Your website will work just like it did before with your previous hosting provider. After we have finished the transfer, your website will be configured to work on our system and we will ask you to preview it. If it is working properly, all you will need to do is modify the NS resource records pertaining to your domain name. Your website will be migrated over to us with no downtime whatsoever.

A: While we migrate your web content, your web hosting provider won’t be aware of the migration at all. We will not touch base with them in any way.

A: Yep. We support all common Linux–powered web hosting platforms. We do not support Windows–based hosting platforms, because we do not offer Windows hosting services ourselves.We also do not support proprietary web site creation and administration tools such as Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square, Mr Site, etc.