I currently use siteground to host several of my sites.
I also have bought the domains using siteground.
The thing is that I want to migrate these domains and wordpress sites to my own server to host them there instead of siteground.
How would I do this?
I can easily set up a Ubuntu linux server that runs apache, so that’s not really the issue, the issue is the transfer part from siteground to my own server.
Can I just simply fill in the domain in the apache config file and then install WordPress via Ubuntu to then use the WordPress migrator plugin to transfer the site?
Can I just delete the hosting plan and wordpress site from siteground after that? (but keep the domain)
Or are there some other steps that I’m missing?
Can anyone guide me through the steps, or to a tutorial on how to do this transfer without issues and major downtimes?
Thanks!
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If you’re not sure what you’re doing at this point, I’d highly recommend you DON’T host the sites yourself. Configuring Apache, PHP-FPM, pooling, security/user permissions, caching isn’t simple.
If you have apache setup, and a WordPress site running on it, most WP backup/migration plugins can be used to restore sites as well. Take a backup on Site A, move the files to Site B, perform restore. I use UpdraftPlus or WPVivid to do this on a regular basis.