Hey I’m new to a digital ocean, I’ve two websites one is hosted on Hostgator and other is on a digital ocean, I’m facing too much downtime at Hostgator, so I want to move my site from HostGator to the digital ocean, I want a step by step guide. Can you please give me any tutorial or youtube video link on this.
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How do i do it without facing downtime…? May i change the NS after migrating all files and DB to DO from my prev Host…? Pls lmk asap, Thanks
This guide will walk you through the process. Basically you will need to:
1.) Create a backup of your MySQL database. 2.) Create a backup of your web files 3.) Create a new LAMP/WordPress or PHPMyAdmin droplet on DigitalOcean 4.) Copy your files to the web root of your new droplet. 5.) Import your database 6.) Check that wp-config.php is updated to match your database.
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