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WordPress migration service —
your site moved, nothing lost.

If your WordPress site is slow, keeps going down, or your host's support has stopped answering — I'll move it to a better home. Everything comes with it: pages, images, plugins, database, the lot. The site is rebuilt and fully tested on the new host before anything switches over, so there's no downtime and nothing left behind. Fixed price, UK-based, usually done in 24–48 hours.

Fixed price from £149 Zero downtime 24–48 hour turnaround

Get a Same-Day Quote See the three options

Sound Familiar?

The last straw is different for everyone.

Nobody moves hosting for fun. Something finally tips you over the edge — GoDaddy, Fasthosts, 123-reg, Heart Internet… the names change, the stories don't.

Slow

“The homepage takes nine seconds. Customers give up before it loads.”

Down again

“The site vanished on a Saturday. No warning, no explanation, no apology.”

Support

“Six days for a reply — and it was a link to a help article.”

Price hike

“The £2.99 “intro deal” quietly became £14.99 at renewal.”

Security scare

“It got hacked — and the host's answer was to sell me an add-on.”

Ghosted

“The developer who set it all up stopped answering emails years ago.”

Whichever one is yours, the fix is the same: a better host, and someone careful doing the moving.

The Three Options

Three ways to do this. All fixed price.

The migration itself is the same careful process every time — the difference is how much you want handled for you. Every tier includes a 48-hour support window after the move.

Migrate my site

£149 fixed

Best for — you already have new hosting set up and just want the move done properly.

  • Full migration — files, database, theme, plugins, media
  • SSL certificate configured on the new host
  • Tested and verified working before any switch
  • Post-move checks: links, forms, images, admin login
  • Plain-English DNS instructions, step by step
  • 48-hour support window after the move

Needs your new hosting already in place — if you don't have it yet, that's Tier 2. Email migration quoted on request.

24–48 hours Book This One

Migrate + new hosting

£199 fixed

Best for — you don't have new hosting yet and want an honest recommendation, set up for you.

  • Everything in Tier 1, plus:
  • A hosting recommendation matched to your site — quality UK hosts, typically £5–15/month
  • You pay the host directly — I don't resell hosting or take referral kickbacks
  • Account set up and configured: PHP version, SSL, email accounts preserved

The recommendation is neutral — I have no stake in where you land, which is exactly why you can trust it.

48–72 hours Book This One
White glove

Migrate + I look after it

£249 + from £30/month

Best for — you want to hand the whole thing over — moved, hosted, watched, and maintained by one person.

  • Migration onto my own infrastructure — fast European VPS, not shared hosting
  • Daily backups, with restores actually tested
  • Uptime monitoring — alerts come to me, not you
  • Security hardening and updates handled as routine
  • The person who moved your site is the person who looks after it

White glove only: I don't offer bare hosting. If your site is on my infrastructure, I'm fully responsible for it — that's the deal that makes it work.

3–5 days Book This One

Not sure which you need? Describe your situation and I'll recommend the right one — sometimes that's the cheaper tier. Curious what my own infrastructure looks like? See Hosting, Servers & DevOps.

How It Works

Tracked like a parcel. Delivered like one.

A typical migration, start to finish. You do the first step; I do the rest while you get on with your day.

  1. Mon 09:14

    Enquiry received

    You tell me where the site is now and what's wrong. A few lines is plenty — no technical detail needed.

  2. Mon 11:02

    Scope confirmed, fixed price quoted

    I look the site over and reply the same day: the price, the plan, and the handful of logins I'll need.

  3. Tue 10:30

    Migration in progress

    I copy everything to the new host and rebuild it there. Your live site is untouched the whole time — visitors notice nothing.

  4. Tue 16:30

    Delivered & verified

    Tested end to end on the new host, then the switch — with step-by-step instructions, or done for you. Total downtime: roughly zero.

The Big Worry

Your domain isn't going anywhere.

Your domain name and your hosting are two different things. The domain — yourbusiness.co.uk — is your address. The hosting is just the building your site lives in. Moving host means moving buildings; the address stays yours, exactly as it is.

At the end of the move, your address simply points at the new building. That's one small change — I send you step-by-step instructions in plain English, or on the managed tier I handle it entirely. Done correctly, nobody visiting your site ever notices.

Nobody can take your domain off you by hosting your website. Not even the bad hosts.

Your Bit

What I need from you.

Four things — and none of them require technical knowledge.

  1. Your current hosting login — cPanel, or whatever your host gave you.
  2. Your WordPress admin login — the one you use to edit the site — or used to.
  3. Your new hosting login — if you have one (Tier 1) — otherwise just your rough budget and I'll handle it.
  4. Your domain registrar login — or the name of whoever manages your domain — for the final pointing-over.

Don't know where half of these live? That's completely normal — I'll help you dig them out. It's usually one rummage through old emails.

Fair Question

“But my new host offers free migration…”

Some do — and for a simple site it sometimes even works. It's worth knowing what “free” actually means before you bet your website on it.

Their “free migration”

  • An automated plugin pushes the files across and hopes
  • Page builders and unusual plugins regularly break in transit
  • It only moves you TO their platform — it's a sales tool, not advice
  • If something goes wrong, you're ticket #4,832 in the queue
  • DNS gets switched whether it works properly or not

This service

  • Moved by hand, by someone who's untangled WordPress for years
  • Works with any host — the advice is neutral, the move is careful
  • Everything tested on the new host before the switch is made
  • Odd plugins, page builders and quirks checked individually
  • 48 hours of “if anything's odd, I fix it” included afterwards

Who this isn't for.

Better you know in the first minute than after you've paid someone. Three honest boundaries:

  • Sites built on Wix, Squarespace, or GoDaddy's Website Builder. Those are closed platforms — what looks like your website is actually rented software, and the code can't be exported. That's a rebuild, not a migration. Get in touch and I'll explain the options honestly.
  • Large WooCommerce stores or membership sites. Hundreds of products, subscriptions, or member areas are absolutely movable — but the scope varies, so they're quoted individually rather than squeezed into a fixed price they don't fit.
  • Whole-server moves. Multiple sites, email servers, or VPS-to-VPS migrations are a different job — that's covered by my Hosting, Servers & DevOps service.
Whole-server moves live here

Who's Doing The Work

One person, start to finish.

I'm Hefin — an independent consultant developer in Mid Wales, with a corporate engineering background and twenty-plus years around production systems. WordPress migrations are routine work for me: I've moved sites off GoDaddy, Fasthosts, 123-reg and Heart Internet, and I know each platform's quirks — including the ones their export tools don't mention.

You're not booking an agency and getting whoever's free that week, and you're not gambling on a £20 gig listing. You deal with me from first email to final check — and I'm the same person who answers when you email six months later. I also build and look after WordPress sites as a core service, so the person moving your site actually understands what's in it.

  • UK based — Mid Wales
  • 20+ years in production systems
  • 1 person, the whole way through
  • £0 hosting kickbacks, ever

Questions

Asked in every migration.

Tap a question. If yours isn't here, just ask — same-day answers are part of the service.

Will my website go offline during the migration?
No. I set the site up and test it fully on the new host before any switch is made. To the outside world, your site stays exactly where it is until the moment of cutover — and the cutover itself takes minutes. Done properly, there's effectively zero downtime.
Will I lose my domain name if I change host?
No — and this is the single most common worry. Your domain and your hosting are completely separate things. Changing host doesn't touch your domain ownership at all. At the end, your domain simply points at the new host: one small change, with my instructions, or done for you on the managed tier.
Will moving host affect my Google rankings?
Usually for the better. Page speed is a ranking factor, so moving from overloaded shared hosting to decent infrastructure tends to help. The risk is a botched migration — broken links, missing pages, downtime — which is precisely what a careful, tested migration is designed to prevent.
My site was built on Wix / Squarespace / GoDaddy's builder — can you migrate it?
Sadly no — those are closed platforms. The code belongs to them, not you, and can't be exported. What looks like a website is rented software. It would need rebuilding in WordPress (which I can do) rather than migrating. Get in touch and I'll lay out what's involved, with no pressure either way.
What if something goes wrong after the migration?
Every tier includes a 48-hour support window after the move — if anything isn't right, I fix it, included in the price. That's the point of hiring one accountable person instead of gambling on a £20 gig listing or an automated tool.

Ready when you are.

No twelve-field forms. Email me three things: your website address, who hosts it now, and what's driving you mad. I'll come back the same day with a straight answer and a fixed price — and if you'd honestly be better off staying put, I'll tell you that too.

Get a Same-Day Quote hefin@sankala.com

Fixed price 48-hour support window Same-day reply