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Transferability from Common Hosts

 

HostGator offers FREE professional website migration services for new accounts on Shared Business, Cloud, WordPress, Reseller, VPS, and Dedicated hosting or an upgrade to these accounts that may require a server move within 30 days of signup or upgrade. If you are not on one of these plans and/or need assistance migrating your site from another hosting provider, we will gladly offer a quote for the site migration.

Here are some hosts we can migrate your content to. Because different hosts have different structures, we may not be able to migrate all of the content from your old host. For example, we can often migrate the website, but not always the email. The chart below helps identify what can be migrated for common hosts.

Terms:
Can be Migrated

This column indicates whether we can migrate your website content or not and, if so, whether a proprietary system prevents us from migrating everything.

Full Backup

This column indicates whether or not we can make a full cPanel backup of your old hosting account and use that to migrate your content. This method of migrating your content transfers the most items.

Email

This column indicates whether we can migrate your email during the migration process and, if not, whether it might be possible to migrate it afterward.

Key:
 Can be MigratedFull BackupEmail
✔

This host's main plans can be migrated (please note that some hosts continue to add proprietary methods which cannot be migrated).

If your account meets the requirements (under 4GB and has enough free space), we should be able to create a backup. If your old host supports cpbackup-excludes and is over 4GB, we can also create a backup and will have to download the files manually.

We should be able to obtain your emails during the migration process; however, these are not guaranteed.

✻

This host provides a proprietary method to obtain content. Not all content can be migrated.

Proprietary services, we can only use their proprietary backups to obtain content. Not all content may be available.

We cannot obtain emails for these types of accounts during the migration process. It may be possible to move the mail afterward using Fetchmail.

❖ 

We are not able to complete a full backup. Due to this, we can only download website content and databases.

 
✘

This host's plan does not provide transferable content.

This host's plan does not provide transferable content.

This provider does not support any known email format.

Chart:
HostPanelCan be MigratedFull BackupMigrate Email
1&1non-cPanel✔❖✻
1&1 eshopnon-cPanel✘✘✻
1&1 MyWebsitenon-cPanel✘✘✻
A Small OrangecPanel✔✔✔
Blogger / Blogspotnon-cPanel✻✻✘
BluehostcPanel✔✔✔
Cloud Accessnon-cPanel✻✻✻
DreamHostnon-cPanel✔❖✻
Dudanon-cPanel✘✘✘
GoDaddynon-cPanel✔❖✻
GoDaddycPanel✔✔✔
GoDaddy Website Tonightnon-cPanel✘✘✻
Google Sitesnon-cPanel✘✘✘
Homesteadnon-cPanel✘✘✻
HostGatorcPanel✔✔✔
HostGatornon-cPanel✔❖✻
HostMonstercPanel✔✔✔
HostNinecPanel✔✔✔
InMotioncPanel✔✔✔
Intuitnon-cPanel✘✘✘
iPagenon-cPanel✔❖✻
IXwebhostingnon-cPanel✔❖✻
JustHostcPanel✔✔✔
LiquidWebcPanel✔✔✔
LiquidWebnon-cPanel✔❖✻
MediaTemplenon-cPanel✔❖✻
Network Solutionsnon-cPanel✔❖✻
NetFirmsnon-cPanel✔❖✻
Microsoft Office Live Small Business / Microsoft 365non-cPanel✘✘✻
Rackspacenon-cPanel✔❖✻
Site5cPanel✔✔✔
SMCing.comnon-cPanel✘✘✘
SprycPanel✔✔✔
Squarespacenon-cPanel✘✘✘
VistaPrintnon-cPanel✘✘✘
webs.comnon-cPanel✘✘✘
Website Tonightnon-cPanel✘✘✘
Weeblynon-cPanel✘✘✻
Wixnon-cPanel✘✘✻
WordPress.comnon-cPanel✻✻✘
Yahoo!non-cPanel✻❖✻

This is not a complete list of hosts we can migrate content from. We can migrate from most web hosts. If you have questions about migration, please contact us via phone or chat, and we can assist you.

Sites we cannot migrate

We cannot migrate from hosts that do not allow access to your website files (typically by FTP) and/or databases and/or the data in those databases. Without access, we cannot copy and migrate your site.