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How to move/migrate wordpress site to DO

I have a wordpress website and is now being hosted by a UK Vps provider. I want to move it to Digital ocean but i don’t know how to do it. Im the site owner not the developer. The man who create my site has gone to another company. Here is my site: https://alivecoupon.com

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alexdo • February 27, 2022

Hello there,

We do have an article that covers the process, although it is with deprecated status, however, you can check it here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-migrate-wordpress-from-shared-hosting-to-a-cloud-server-with-zero-downtime

You can use the WP All in One plugin or Duplicator to migrate all of your WordPress websites.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

If you have to move some of the data manually you can do that via ssh using scp or rsync. Another option is to use an FTP client like FileZilla

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-copy-files-with-rsync-over-ssh

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/transfer-files/

Hope that this helps!

Bobby Iliev • October 14, 2019

Hello,

I would recommend following the steps here on how to migrate a Wordpress website to a DigitalOcean droplet with no downtime:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-migrate-wordpress-from-shared-hosting-to-a-cloud-server-with-zero-downtime

Regards, Bobby