Website Migration
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Q: Why do I need to move my site? What does web site migration include?
A: The web site migration service on offer at Central Target Hosting is completely free and involves transferring all your files, databases and emails from your present hosting provider to your new hosting account with us. We will also update all the configuration settings necessary for your websites to be fully functional on our next–generation cloud hosting platform.Our techs are fully capable of moving any sort of website. With years of experience in this field, they are well–versed in the specificities of our hosting platform, our Control Panel as well as all other popular Control Panels. For them, moving a custom–built app with numerous custom libraries is as easy as transferring a plain WordPress–based weblog.
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Q: Just how long will the web site migration procedure take?
A: We try to perform all web site migrations ASAP. However, we don’t have a fixed time frame for web site migrations. There are various things that you need to consider – the very size of your website and the workload of our web site migration team, etc. We always try to accomplish each migration within 48 hours. With less sizeable web sites, our team typically manages to finish within 24 hours.
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Q: Do you require anything from me before you begin transferring my web site?
A: Yes. We will need to have the name of the website that you want us to transfer. We’ll also require a way to log into your present web hosting account so that we can get the content associated with your website.
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Q: The login info for my hosting account is delicate. How can I trust you?
A: Customer privacy is one of our leading concerns – that’s why, both our payment transaction page and our CP login page are secured with enterprise–level Secure Sockets Layer certificates. We employ safety measures, which include, but are not limited to: physical, digital and administrative operations to safeguard the information that we collect on the Internet. And we also have a detailed and rigorous Privacy Policy, which outlines the types of information that we gather.
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Q: Will my site be offline during the migration?
A: Your site will work just like it did before with your previous web hosting provider. Once we have completed the migration, your site will be configured to work on our platform and we’ll alert you to preview it. If it is functioning correctly, all you will need to do is update the name server resource records for your domain. Your web site will be migrated over to us without any downtime whatsoever.
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Q: Will my current hosting provider need to provide any info/help?
A: Nah. We’ll never touch base with your web hosting provider about anything at all. They will not be aware of the web site transfer either.
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Q: Does it matter what platform my present provider is using?
A: Yeah. We support all conventional Linux–driven hosting platforms. We do not support Windows–driven hosting platforms, since we do not offer Windows hosting solutions ourselves.Furthermore, we don’t support proprietary website creation and administration interfaces such as Wix, BaseKit, Jimdo, Website Tonight, Four Square, Mr Site, etc.