Migrating from shared hosting to droplet

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!

Hi @p4trk,

When talking about migrations, before you start migrating your websites you’ll need to configure everything else.

In this case, you first need to create your Droplet and configure it so that it can hosts websites. You mentioned you want a cPanel Droplet to be used again. DigitalOcean have pre-ready droplets for such cases. There is one for cPanel as well:

https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/cpanel-whm

It creates a Droplet with cPanel reay to go, on the fly. So first you’ll need to create such a droplet.

Next thing I need to mention is that cPanel’s license is free 15 days. This means that after 15 days, you’ll need to acquire said license directly from cPanel as they are a third-party service provider. You can check that here:

https://store.cpanel.net/view/cpanel/license-options?type=VPS

Now, you are ready with the setup.

To migrate your websites there are a few options which you can take. The first and easiest is if you have root access to your server as cPanel has a tool to connect between two cPanel servers/droplets and migrate websites from one to another without any downtime.

Given that you are using a Shared Server I would assume you don’t have root access. In such case, what you’ll need to do is, create the Websites on your new cPanel droplet with DigitalOcean and use SSH or Ftp to migrate the websites over. There are options is cPanel with which you can create full cPanel backups to move to other servers. I’ll recommend using that option.