ell, it is that time of the year again when I have to renew my hosting. A friend of mine recommend a hosting company which offers more features than what I am currently getting for less money. So I’ve decided to pack my bags as they say, and leave one home to go to another. Now the problem is that I don’t want to waste all the time I’ve spend in developing the site, so I need to move it.
I thought that during this time I would write down a guide on how to backup a wordpress site and then how to deploy it to another host.
The hosting company I have moved to is http://www.tsohost.co.uk/
I am going to refer to my existing hosting as ’source host’ and my new hosting as ‘destination host’ to simplify things. I am also going to be using FTP because both companies do not offer SSH Access with the packages I have.
I recommend that you first buy your destination host package so that while they are sorting out your order and dns (which took ages for me, no fault of tsohost!) you can prepare things on your source host.
