FREE WORDPRESS MIGRATION

Move your WordPress site to HostBarrel

Tell us where the site lives now and we do the move: files, database, plugins, domain. The old site keeps running until the switch. We reply by email with any questions and a proposed time.

Free with any WordPress plan
No passwords on this form
Nothing is sent until you confirm by email

Your answers save in this browser as you type, so you can close it and come back.

Already have a HostBarrel account? Log in to the Hub and click Migrate my site on your Sites page: it files the same request and takes your logins there, encrypted.

About you

Who we are moving the site for, and where to send the reply. required

First name

Last name

The confirmation link and our reply go here.

Phone (optional)

Business name (optional)

The site to move

Where it is now and what kind of site it is. Not sure of something? Pick "Not sure" and we work it out.

Web address of the site

Where it is hosted now

Control panel at the current host

Kind of site

Approximate size, files and database

Premium plugins or themes to carry over (optional)

Domain and email

Domain the site should answer on (blank = the one in the address)

Who points the domain to us

Mailboxes on the old host

HostBarrel does not host mailboxes; we help you move them to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.

Move the mailboxes too?

Timing and notes (optional)

When may the switch happen?

Must be live by

Anything else we should know

A few lines are plenty. We ask about the rest.0 / 2000

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We email you a link to click, so we know the address works. Our privacy policy says what we keep.

Your move so far Fills in as you answer

Site

To come

From

To come

Kind and size

A WordPress site

Domain

The one in the address · HostBarrel changes the DNS for me

Mailboxes

None

Logins

Later, in your Hub, stored encrypted

HostBarrel migrations

Which site are we moving? Start with its address.

What happens next

You confirm your email. That sends the request to us.
We reply with any questions, the plan that fits, and a proposed time for the switch.
You give us the logins in your HostBarrel Hub. They are stored encrypted, shown only to the engineer doing the move, and wiped when it is done.
We copy the site to HostBarrel and check it with you at a private address. The old site keeps running.
The domain is pointed to us, by us or by you. Done, usually within one to two working days of getting the logins.

WordPress, WooCommerce and multisite from any host with a control panel or SFTP. Email hosting is not included; we point you to a provider and move the mail records. Questions first? Write to us.