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Web Site Transfer
These are steps you need to take in order to make sure your website is transferred without interruption.
- Make sure your have enough time on your old host.
- Dont start the transfer the last few days, we give you the remaining days on the last host for free Transfer to eSG.
Requirements
Web Site Data
With a Panel
- Credentials for your Panel
- For cPanel we need the credentials you use to connect here:
- https://domain.tld:2083 (substitute domain.tld with your domain)
- For Plesk we need the credentials you use to connect here:
- https://domain.tld:8443 (substitute domain.tld with your domain)
Without a Panel
- tar of all files
- Request that your previous host or the site developer create an archive of all of your files.
- dump of all databases
- Request that your previous host or the site developer create an archive of all of your databases.
Domain
For the transfer we will need the EPP Code, in most cases you should be able to get this from the previous host unless you registered it in another company.
- EPP Code
- Please note that the transfer of the domain is not necessary in case you want to keep your current registrar. In that case update your current zone with our DNS Servers: DNS
Google Analytics
In many cases your previous host or site developer has created a property for your domain/site in Google Analytics. In order to keep all previous tracking and data you should transfer the property to one of your accounts and remove the old hosts permissions.
- Transfer of the Google Analytics Property