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What is the easiest way to migrate a WordPress site from SiteGround to DigitalOcean?
What is the easiest way to migrate a WordPress site from SiteGround to DigitalOcean?
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Hi @timhvines,
In my eyes, the easiest way would be to create a new Ubuntu droplet and install LAMP stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP) on it. Then once you are ready just copy the files of your website from Siteground to DigitalOcean either via FTP or Rsync/SCP.
If you are not sure how to do any of those, I’ll recommend following a couple of tutorials. You can start with the following one :
It will walk you through the process of installing all needed components.
Now, onto the migration part. As said there are two options. The first one would be using a Terminal and copying using it. That way you would be able to use Rsync/SCP to copy your files over which is pretty cool and quick. The second option would be using FTP. Before you can actually use FTP on your DigitalOcean droplet, you would need to configure your user’s access with FTP. There is a pretty good tutorial on Digitalocean on how you can do this. You can check that here
Hope that helps!
Regards, KFSys