Moving a WP site to new host?

[Helmuts]

UPDATE: Login problem now rectified

I have an old ClassiPress WP directory site on HostGator, that I wouldn't mind keeping, if it's easy to move it, I've just done a Google search and it looks a bit complicated, is there an easy way to save a WP site and upload it at a new host?

From what I read, it seems you can download the site from cPanel and save it to your computer, same with the database, can't remember if that was a database I had to set up in cPanel, or did it set up a database when I did the one click WP install, if so, is the database part of the WP site files if I downloaded them?

This has got to be done by tomorrow if I am to save it, as tomorrow is when my hosting payment would have been due, but I cancelled the hosting as it's gone up from $176 to $250 per year, and I only use it to host 1 email address for the last few years, the site itself has been inactive for years.

Not got a new webhost yet, I'll probably register with and use HostMaria.

Hi, I am just about to move our old ("a bit" abandoned) Classipress site outlived.co.uk to a fresh vps > the site with 3GB database (mostly users) has outgrown most shared hosting offers, including ours at HostMaria (we/20i allow a database to grow up-to 1 gb size > then the size needs to be reduced). .. and, on 20i, have to admit, Classipress sites work just fine after being set up, and then after 1 year+ start having issues on allowing to renew ads. .. also disabling ads.. strange issue I have noticed with all the Classipress site I've owned and hosted on 20i. Otherwise the Cloud is great.

I will be testing: 8gb ram, 2cores/4threads, 60gb disk space vps (I have already prepared one for ourselves) + Fastpanel (free) + free Cloudflare plan for DNS
If tests are successful, I'm planing to charge £20/month for Clasipress hosting, and probably will be able to add free migration. Could you be interested as well?
We have a new employee - talanted programmer Prashanna from Nepal, and he will be put on this task next week.

H

 

[Helmuts]

[Update] We have just changed the DNS over to Cloudflare now and are monitoring the process.

Have a great morning! H