Moving a WordPress site from one VPS to another — whether you’re switching hosts, upgrading plans, or consolidating servers — is one of those tasks that’s simple in theory and full of small landmines in practice. Get the sequence right and visitors never notice. Get it wrong and you’re staring at a broken database connection […]
A WordPress migration that copies every file correctly can still break the site if permissions and ownership don’t come across cleanly. This is the single most common “why is my migrated site throwing 500 errors / white screens / can’t upload images” cause, and it’s almost never mentioned in migration plugin documentation because the plugin […]
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Most WordPress migration guides point you to a plugin — install it on both ends, click through a wizard, wait for a zip to build. That works fine for a small brochure site, but once your database or media library grows past a gigabit or two, plugin-based migrations start hitting memory limits, execution timeouts, and […]
Every WordPress migration between domains, or from a staging URL to a live one, needs a search-replace pass on the database — because WordPress stores full URLs directly in post content, in the wp_options table (siteurl, home), and inside serialized PHP arrays used by widgets, theme options, and many plugins. Get this step wrong and […]
Every WordPress migration guide tells you to back up first, and most people skim past it because nothing has gone wrong yet. Then a search-replace command gets run against the wrong database, a file transfer gets interrupted halfway through overwriting the destination, or a host’s “free migration” tool silently drops a table — and there’s […]
Disclosure: We may earn a small commission if you use our affiliate links, but our guides on migrating between managed WordPress hosts are always written with complete inde Moving between two managed WordPress hosts is not the same job as moving a plain LAMP site. Managed platforms wrap your site in their own caching layer, […]
Moving a live WordPress site from shared or managed hosting to a cloud provider like DigitalOcean, Vultr, or AWS Lightsail is one of those jobs where the failure mode is loud: broken checkout pages, missing images, or an hour of 502 errors while DNS catches up. It doesn’t have to be that way. A zero-downtime […]