How do I migrate to Chillidog Hosting?

Are you a techie? If not, we provide free professional migration assistance for new users. You will barely have to lift a finger to migrate to Chillidog Hosting.

Migrating your site from one web host to another is easy with Chillidog Hosting. Not only do we offer comprehensive help when it comes to migrating data, but we also provide you with the tools necessary to do it yourself. We know that many of our users will be migrating from WordPress sites, so we make it easy to transfer your data from WordPress to Chillidog Hosting using PHPMyAdmin.

Migration is simple and easy for all websites. Simply log in to your Chillidog Hosting account and access your cPanel. For more information on how to do that, click here. Once you are there,

  1. Log into your control panel using the log in information provided in your New Account Info email
  2. Once logged in, select the database that you would like to migrate. Click on the information that you would like to migrate, then click on the export tab. For WordPress sites, make sure to click “select all”. Click “save” and then click “go”. The database will then download to the downloads folder on your computer.
  3. Create a new database in the cPanel. When prompted, choose “all privileges”.
  4. Once this new database is created, open PHPMyAdmin. Select the option for “new database” in the left sidebar.
  5. “Import” will show up at the top. click on this. Now you will be given the option to select the database file you just downloaded. click on this, then click on the “go” button.
  6. When your import is successful, it will show you a message on the screen.
Pro tip! Softaculous is available for free in your Control Panel. If you're a Wordpress user, you can use Softaculous to automatically install, backup, and upgrade Wordpress.

It is as simple as that.

However, we understand that not everyone is at the same website hosting level. Therefore, we offer help. Feel free to contact us if anything should go wrong or if you have any questions about the process.
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