Moving your website to new hosting

VulCode, a software house from Kraków. We move websites and stores, WordPress included: files, database, email and DNS records. We check the site on the new server under the real domain before DNS changes, and plan the switch so there is no downtime or only a few minutes of it. The quote is free and comes back within an hour.

A hosting change on its own, where the URLs stay the same, needs no redirects and no change of address. Google warns that right after the move Googlebot may temporarily crawl the site more slowly, and over the following days faster than before. What matters is whether the new server answers without errors: with 5xx errors Google slows crawling, and if they last, pages can drop out of the index. So we check the site before the switch and watch the logs and Search Console after it.

We plan the switch so there is no downtime or only a few minutes of it, at the quietest time. The site already runs on the new server before we change DNS, and the old server stays on while it still receives traffic.

Preparation starts before the switch itself: we lower the DNS records' TTL to a few hours at least a week ahead, as Google advises. Meanwhile we copy the files and database and check the site on the new server. After the DNS change some visitors reach the new server at once and the rest once the TTL runs out, so both servers run side by side during that time. We give the switch date with the quote.

If your email is on the old hosting, we move the mailboxes with their messages and set the MX, SPF and DKIM records for the new mail server. If your email runs elsewhere, the MX record stays as it is, and we add the new web server to SPF when it sends email from forms.

Yes, that is the most common case. We move the WordPress files with the theme, plugins and media and the database, set the database connection in wp-config.php and check that the new server runs the PHP version the site needs. When the domain changes along the way, we replace the addresses in the database with a tool that does not break saved plugin settings.

Yes, but then it is a migration with changed URLs: every old address gets a 301 redirect to its counterpart, and we file a change of address in Search Console for every variant of the domain. Our website and store migration page covers it.

Moving a website costs from PLN 299, and a store migration with products, customers and orders from PLN 999. The price goes up mainly with the number of mailboxes to move, the size of the files and database, and a change of domain or system along the way. The figure for your scope comes in a free quote, and the starting prices of all our services are on our pricing page.

Hosting is chosen by asking who will administer the server. A company website, a blog and a small store usually fit on shared hosting, while apps with their own software on the server and larger stores need a VPS. You can also keep the hosting with us under maintenance, with monitoring and backups.

For the quote, the site address and where your email lives now are enough. For the work we need access to the current hosting, the domain panel and the new server, unless the hosting is going to be with us.

After the switch we watch the server logs and Search Console: 404 and 5xx errors, indexing and Google traffic. We shut the old server down only when its logs show no more traffic. For 90 days from acceptance we fix bugs caused by our work at no extra cost.