Your site, moved. Your traffic, preserved.
Every migration follows the same boring script. Staging first. Every URL mapped. Every redirect tested. Every piece of schema preserved. You flip DNS only after you literally say ship it.
Four steps. One operator. No surprises.
Inventory
Full crawl of the existing site. URL map, status codes, schema audit, SSL chain check, DNS record list, analytics history pulled.
Staging build
New site lands on a wildcard subdomain. You click around, content team reviews, redirect map finalized. No DNS touched yet.
Flip
TTL lowered in advance. DNS moved at an agreed window. SSL live, sitemap re-pinged, Search Console and Bing notified same hour.
Verify + monitor
Redirect sweep, schema validate, Core Web Vitals spot check, seven day traffic watch. Rollback kept armed thirty days.
Leaving where, exactly?
Most incoming migrations come from the same shortlist of legacy hosts. Each one has its own quirks. Each one has a clean playbook on this side.
GoDaddy + Bluehost
Shared cPanel environments. Typical wins: drop cost, unify DNS, rotate certs automatically, remove addon ladder.
Same day for static sitesWordPress (any host)
Full database export, plugin audit, theme cleanup, media sideload, URL rewrite map, search console reindex request.
24 to 72 hoursWix + Squarespace
Content extraction, sitemap reconstruction, permanent 301 map to keep search equity intact.
2 to 5 daysVPS, Droplet, EC2
Config audit, nginx port, systemd service migration, cert handoff, DNS and firewall cutover, observability brought forward.
Scoped per caseEverything, or we do not sign off.
DNS records
A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME, SPF, DKIM, DMARC. Email keeps flowing. Calendar invites keep working.
Redirect map
Every old URL pointed at the right new URL with a 301. Category slugs, pagination, search engine equity preserved.
Schema + structured data
JSON-LD re-rendered per template, validated with Google Rich Results, served at the edge for crawlers and AI agents.
Analytics + Search Console
GA4, Plausible, Fathom, GSC, Bing Webmaster. Property moves, sitemap submits, change of address pinged same hour.
The questions every migration gets.
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The free audit alone maps every bottleneck on your current host. Most people keep the PDF whether they migrate or not.