This article explains how to copy your site from another host to PlanetHoster.
Prerequisites
Enter the following address in your web browser: https://my.planethoster.com.
Steps to Follow
- Copy your files from your current hosting to your computer via FTP. If necessary, please refer to your hosting provider’s documentation or to our articles explaining how to migrate a website to PlanetHoster:
- Copy these files via FTP to your hosting in the public_html folder for your main domain.
- If you are using the MG panel, you have to connect to your hosting using FTP and perform file upload.
- If you use another panel, you have to put your site online with Filezilla.
- With the MG panel, export your database to your computer from your PhpMyAdmin utility on your current hosting. If you do not use the MG panel, you have to export the database with another panel. If necessary, please refer to your hosting provider’s documentation or to our articles explaining how to migrate a website to PlanetHoster:
- With the MG panel, create a database on your hosting. If you do not use the MG panel, you have to create the database with another panel.
- Import the previously exported database into your new database.
- If you are using the MG panel, use the PhpMyAdmin tool of your account.
- If you use another panel, you have to import the database to the account in SSH.
- Modify the database connection file parameters duly noted in step 4.
- To do this, please update the following four lines: DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD and DB_HOST.
- The approach varies according to your CMS.
- Recreate your email accounts by copying the emails from an IMAP server to a PlanetHoster server.
- Once you have done that, change your domain servers to PlanetHoster’s.