Documentation

Visit Our xCloud Knowledge Base

Here is your one-stop source for in-depth articles, FAQs, and tutorials for you to excel at hosting & managing your websites.


How To Migrate An Existing WordPress Website In xCloud?

With xCloud, you can easily migrate an existing WordPress website without any complexity at all. Letโ€™s follow this guide to get started.

Prerequisites To Migrate An Existing WordPress Website In xCloud: #

  • Disable 2FA if there are any.
  • Disable additional security like Cloudways Bot protection, OR Site Grounds Security optimizer from your hosting end.
  • Clear Cache and disable cache plugins like Object Cache PRO
  • Uninstall Must use plugins of hosts.
  • Disable Wordfence, Malcare or any other security plugins.

Step 1: Create A New Site #

First, you have to log in to xCloud with your credentials. Then click on โ€˜Add New Siteโ€™ from the xCloud dashboard.

Migrate An Existing WordPress

After that, you have to choose your server to add the site. You can either create a new server or use your existing one. 

Migrate An Existing WordPress

Now, you will be redirected site creation dashboard. Click on the โ€˜Migrate An Existing WordPress Websiteโ€™. 

Migrate An Existing WordPress

Step 2: Add Information To Migrate An Existing WordPress Website #

Here, simply select the destination server to migrate your site.

Migrate An Existing WordPress

On the domain page, you need to add your source site URL. And if you choose to migrate to a new domain you can include your custom domain. xCloud offers a staging environment and with it, you can migrate your site and visit it live with a temporary domain.
After successful migration, you may update the site with your custom domain later.

In this tutorial, we will be working on a staging site.

Note: It is advisable to migrate your website to a staging domain initially to ensure everything functions correctly. Following this, you can smoothly transition your staging domain to a live one and launch your site.

Migrate An Existing WordPress

Now we will be on the โ€˜Settingsโ€™ page. Make sure to correctly add your PHP Version, Prefix, Site Users, and much more. 

Migrate An Existing WordPress

Step 3: Add Plugin File & Authentication Token To WordPress Site #

You will be now directed to the plugin page. Just download the plugin file and copy the code to paste it to your WordPress site. 

Migrate An Existing WordPress

Now go to your WordPress website and add the migration plugin you have just downloaded. After that paste the access token you have copied from the Plugin tab. You can see in the following picture that the plugin has been successfully installed and the code is added.

Migrate An Existing WordPress

After all the changes click on โ€˜Update Tokenโ€™ to save all your progress. 

Step 4: Complete Database Settings & Finalize #

In the โ€˜Databaseโ€™ tab you can configure your preferred database setup. You can either migrate all database tables or only the file systems.

Migrate An Existing WordPress

After that, you are good to go for migrating an existing WordPress website with xCloud.

Migrate An Existing WordPress

This is how you can easily migrate an existing WordPress website with ease.

Still stuck? Contact our support team for any of your queries. 

What are your feelings
Updated on May 27, 2024

Server Name

RAM

SSD

xCloud Provider Price/m
(For LTD users)

VULTR Price/m

DO Price/m

Newcomer

1GB

25GB

$4.50

$5.00

$6.00

Basic

2GB

55GB

$9.00

$10

$12.00

Standard

4GB

80GB

$18.00

$20

$24.00

Professional

8GB

160GB

$36.00

$40

$48.00

Business

16GB

320GB

$72.00

$80

$96.00

Server Name

RAM

SSD/NVMe

xCloud Provider Price/m
(For LTD users)

VULTR Price/m

DO Price/m

Lite

1GB

32GB

$5.40

$6.00

$8.00

Personal

2GB

88GB

$16.20

$18.00

$24.00

Growing

4GB

128GB

$21.60

$24.00

$32.00

Elite

8GB

256GB

$43.20

$48.00

$64.00

Titanium

8GB

384GB

$86.40

$96.00

$96.00

Ultimate

32GB

512GB

$172.80

$192.00

$192.00