How to move your existing shared hosting account to HostSailor

If you are looking to move your existing hosting account from your previous host to Hostsailor, the best solution is provided below:

  1. Get a full backup of your files, folders, and databases from the old host.
  2. Login to the cPanel account with us.



  3. Open file manager and upload the files and folders to the public_html folder.



  4. If it is currently in a compressed format, you can simply extract it from the file manager itself.
  5. Once the files and folders are properly placed, you need to create DB as well as DB Users.
  6. Go to the Databases section in cPanel and create new DBs and users and make sure to provide proper permissions as well.



  7. Once done, you can restore the DB file backup from the PHPMyAdmin using the 'Import' option.



  8. Make sure that you have corrected the new DB details inside your configuration files(eg: wp-config.php)
  9. Once all done, test the website after changing the DNS or else by adding a hosts entry on your local machine
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