Hello good people!
I need to change the domain of my wordpress site hosted at Nixihost . They said that in order to do this I need to back it up , let them do a full wipe and change to the new domain , then reupload the site . Is that true ?
I had a lot of trouble doing this earlier today . It was really stressful because my site was offline and it’s a business site. I wasn’t aware that I could request that they restore it from yesterdays backup. They did that and now the site is back up and running, but the domain still need to change. I already have the other domain name, just need to connect it.
I was considering that maybe I should be using managed wordpress hosting to avoid these kinds of problems, but I’ve done ok up until now. I think Nixihost is meant for people that are more experienced with computer science than me.
Anyway what do you think ? Thanks!
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That’s not normal, no. Changing the URL for a WordPress site is very easy.
There is even official documentation on doing it -> [https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/changing-the-site-url/])
Also – changing the domain on a cPanel hosting service is also *very* easy to do.
I have no idea why they would tell you what they’ve told you.
uh no, i would personally run to a new host. that’s the type of answer you get typically when a host is outsourcing overseas.
What kind of admin pages do you have with your account?
I have found that I can just change the domain in the site’s admin pages, and let everything sort itself out. It takes a few minutes for everything to work again, but only a few minutes.
But then I have Cpanel and the WP Toolkit feature, and you may not.