Migration of an Existing Website

If you already have an existing WordPress site that has live traffic that you are trying to migrate to our servers, you will need to change DNS twice. We do this 2 step process to ensure that your live site does not have a downtime during the migration process. This ensures that your (or your client's) website visitors have a consistent experience during the time of migration process.

At the beginning of Migration

When you start your migration you will be asked to enter a dummy CNAME & to point it to a randomly generate value to verify your domain. This step will look like this:

This helps us verify the domain which is the origin of your backup file. 

After Successful Migration

Once your migration is completed, you will be issues a temporary domain that looks like wp-my-domain-com.msgsndr.com which will allow you to preview your migrated website, login to wp-admin portal and test out all your customizations. Once you have checked your migration, you can prepare to divert traffic from your old website to the newly migrated website. 

To do this you will need to point your live traffic domains like

• domain.com (root domain to 34.149.157.183via A Record)

• www.domain.com (subdomain to wp.msgsndr.com via CNAME)

• blog.domain.com (subdomain to wp.msgsndr.com via CNAME)

Once your domain changes have propagated, you will need to go to location view -> sites -> WordPress and add them as additional domains.

Then you can log-in to wp-admin -> dashboard -> settings in left menu -> general and change the Site URL and WordPress URL as shown below.