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Websites Migration

Websites Migration

One of the most challenging tasks for any website owner is the migration of his/her website to a new provider. Many website owners are forced to stay with the existing providers even if they receive poor quality service only because they don’t have the know-how to migrate their websites to new providers. Keeping this in mind, QualiSpace offers free Unlimited Websites migration to website owners who wish to buy service from QualiSpace. Not only the new customers, QualiSpace even helps those customers who have hosting with QualiSpace but want to upgrade the package due to business requirement.

QualiSpace provides the following types of free migration services to customers.

1.      Shared Hosting package upgrade

Generally, shared hosting package upgrade means only upgrading the disk space and other upgrades that the higher packages offer and as such there is no need to migrate websites. However, for those websites which are still running on our old packages, they have to be migrated to new servers due to requirement of the new package. We provide free migration for such websites which require change of servers. The estimated time for each website migration is 72 hours from the time the request is made.

2.      Shared hosting Platform change

If a customer decides to migrate from Linux Hosting to Windows Hosting or vice versa, we provide free migration of the website(s). However, there are certain limitations in such migrations.

  • The platform change should be accompanied with Hosting Plan upgradation
  • Emails cannot be transferred due to different mail servers.

The estimated time for each website migration is 72 hours from the time the request is made.

3.      Migration from Shared hosting to VPS

If you have shared hosting account with QualiSpace and decide to buy VPS, we provide free migration of the websites to the VPS. There are few prerequisites for the migration to VPS which need to be fulfilled. They are:

  • The VPS should have control panel installed (Plesk or Cpanel).
  • The control panel should be the same in both the shared hosting server and VPS i.e. Plesk to Plesk or Cpanel to Cpanel
  • The migration request should be made within 30 days from the date of VPS purchased.

The estimated time for each website migration is 72 hours from the time the request is made.

4.      Migration from Shared Hosting to Dedicated server

If you have shared hosting account with QualiSpace and decide to buy a Dedicated server, we provide free migration of the websites to the Dedicated Server. There are few prerequisites for the migration to VPS which need to be fulfilled. They are:

  • The Dedicated should have control panel installed.
  • The control panel should be the same in both the shared hosting server and VPS i.e. Plesk to Plesk or Cpanel to Cpanel
  • The migration request should be made within 30 days from the date of VPS purchased.

The estimated time for each website migration is 72 hours from the time the request is made.

5.      Migration from Reseller Hosting to VPS

If you wish to upgrade from Reseller Hosting to VPS, we migrate all the websites from the Reseller hosting server to the new VPS. Following conditions need to be fulfilled to avail the free migration service

  • The VPS should have a control panel installed (Plesk or Cpanel)
  • The VPS should have the same control panel as the one in the Reseller Hosting server. It means that the websites of a reseller with reseller hosting in Cpanel will not be transferred to a VPS with Plesk control panel.
  • The reseller hosting and VPS should have the same operating system.
  • The migration request should be made within 30 days from the date of VPS purchased.

The estimated time for each website migration is 72 hours from the time the request is made.

6.      Migration from Reseller Hosting to Dedicated server

If you wish to upgrade from Reseller Hosting to Dedicated Server, we migrate all the websites from the Reseller hosting server to the new Dedicated Server. Following conditions need to be fulfilled to avail the free migration service

  • The Dedicated Server should have a control panel installed (Plesk or Cpanel)
  • The Dedicated Server should have the same control panel as the one in the Reseller Hosting server. It means that the websites of a reseller with reseller hosting in Cpanel will not be transferred to a Dedicated Server with Plesk control panel.
  • The reseller hosting and Dedicated Server should have the same operating system.
  • The migration request should be made within 30 days from the date of Dedicated Server purchased.

The estimated time for each website migration is 72 hours from the time the request is made.

7.      Migration from VPS to Dedicated server

If you wish to upgrade to a Dedicated server from VPS, we provide free migration of all the websites. Following conditions should be fulfilled to avail this service.

  • The VPS and the Dedicated server should have control panel installed.
  • Both the VPS and the Dedicated server should have the same control panel.
  • Both the VPS and the Dedicated server should have the same operating system.
  • Only one VPS will be migrated to the Dedicated server. If you wish to upgrade to a Dedicated server and migrate all websites from multiple VPS’ to the new server, we will revert with a Quote.
  • The migration request should be made within 30 days from the date of Dedicated Server purchased.

The estimated time for the completion of the website migration is 72 hours per website.

8.      Migration from existing Dedicated server to new Dedicated server

If you wish to upgrade your dedicated server to a new dedicated server with higher configuration, we provide free migration of all the websites. Following are the pre-requisites for availing this service.

  • The existing and new Dedicated server should have the same control panel installed.
  • The existing and the new Dedicated server should have the same operating system.
  • Only one Dedicated server will be migrated to the new Dedicated server. If you wish to upgrade to a Dedicated server and migrate all websites from multiple servers to the new server, we will revert with a Quote.
  • Free migration is available only for the upgrades. If you wish to downgrade the server, i.e. migrate from a high configuration server to a lower configuration server, we will revert with a Quote.
  • The migration request should be made within 30 days from the date of Dedicated Server purchased.

The estimated time for the completion of the website migration is 72 hours per website.

9.      Migration of websites from another shared hosting provider to QualiSpace

If you have shared hosting account with another hosting provider and wish to buy hosting from QualiSpace, we help you to migrate your websites to our server. To avail of this service, the following prerequisites should be met.

  • If the website is hosted on Windows, it should have Plesk control panel and if it is hosted on Linux server, it should have Cpanel.
  • You should provide us the complete backup of the website which we can restore in our server. The backup should be either a Plesk backup or a Cpanel backup.
  • Multiple websites can be migrated only if separate hosting is purchased for each website. If you have purchased Platinum Plus plan, we will migrate only the website for which the Platinum Plus plan is purchased. For the rest of the domains which will be hosted as add-on domains, the migration has to be taken care by you.
  • We will not change the connection string for any website. It has to be taken care by you.

10.   Migration from VPS with another provider to QualiSpace VPS

If you have a VPS with another provider and wish to migrate to a VPS purchased from us, we will migrate all the websites hosted on the VPS to the new VPS. Following are the pre-requisites for free migration.

  • The old VPS should have Plesk or Cpanel.
  • The migration of websites can be done only from Plesk to Plesk or Cpanel to Cpanel.
  • If you have Plesk installed on the old vps, you should make sure to install Plesk migration agent.
  • We need the administrator/root access of the old VPS.

11.   Migration from Dedicated server with another provider to QualiSpace Dedicated server

If you have a server with another provider and wish to migrate to a VPS purchased from us, we will migrate all the websites hosted on the VPS to the new VPS. Following are the pre-requisites for free migration.

  • The old server should have Plesk or Cpanel.
  • The migration of websites can be done only from Plesk to Plesk or Cpanel to Cpanel.
  • If you have Plesk installed on the old server, you should make sure to install Plesk migration agent.
  • We need the administrator/root access of the old server.

 

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