I am trying to migrate or copy my wordpress website from an older plesk managed server/via IONOS to a more powerful server also Plesk/IONOS. The website has grown and is slow, i am trying to increase site speed and efficiency for customers and SEO.

However i am having real difficulty and i have tried the migrate options available from Plesk/wordpress and also downloading and uploading using FileZilla. But i keep hitting walls and whenever i add the new host to my DNS on IONOS my website crashes until i remove the new host A records.

Not sure if this is the place for help on this, but would appreciate any feedback

Thank you

Dustin Toland

I’m yet to test that everything has migrated properly, however, what I’ve seen so far, has impressed me immensely. I give a huge shout out “YAY” to Migrate Guru for this fantastic plug in, as well as saving me money I don’t have that I would have inevitably spent on ‘other’ plug ins to solve my problem.

Thank you Migrate Guru – you 100% have my vote of confidence.

I created a staging site and I couldn’t figure out how to get it to work so I deleted it. Somehow I deleted the content of my orginal site as well (no I did not push it live) Anyway after speaking with Bluehost they were able to help me somewhat but I’m still not able to restore my content. They walked me through double checking that there were no changes to my host obviously, domain, or server.

I expected the backup to be restored successfully on my current setup, which has the same domain, host, and server as the original site.

Instead of a successful restoration, I received an error message stating that the backup cannot be restored due to domain, host, and server restrictions. The error indicates that the backup requires being restored on the exact same domain, host, and server as the original, but it appears to be failing despite my setup being consistent with these requirements.

Browser: Google Chrome

Operating System: Windows 10

Hosting Provider: Bluehost

PHP Version: 8.3.6 (as listed in my WPStaging environment details)

I’m at a loss on how to move forward as I don’t want to purchase a pro version because I don’t need it. Why is it not restoring? Please advise on how I can proceed with restoring the backup under these circumstances. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

First of all, thank you very much for having a space for our questions. I’ve been looking for a fix for about a month and I’m running out of time.

Last year I created the site inmobar.com to my digitalocean account, however, over time it was time to pass it on to its owner, so I made another account in Digital Ocean, a snapshot and then created a droplet based on this .

For a long time I thought the problem was due to poor configuration, but by making arrangements and between tickets and queries, I discovered that the site does not have problems with HTML files such as https://inmobar.com/readme.html; instead, you show problems loading the home page or any page with content.

I have found references to other migration errors regarding NGINX permalinks, I have also had experience with caching problems but none of these cases fit my case because it does not have a caching system and the NGINX configuration already worked in the previous machine and this is a copy.

So I was wondering if WordPress has a history of showing these problems, I usually use a plugin to migrate from one machine to another but I’m using a database on a cluster so said helper plugin didn’t allow me to go down that route.

I will appreciate your help to save this site before it is canceled.

Thanks

I have created a WP Theme which includes some demo pages and plugins and I’m wondering how to export everything in one single package so the final user can install it within a few clicks. Is there a simple way to do this or should I export the Theme, then the data, and use as many plugins as possible?

Thanks all for the help, feel free to link resources or tutorials as well!