hostney

Hostney Migration connects your WordPress site to the Hostney hosting platform so the Hostney worker can pull your database and files automatically. No SSH access, FTP credentials, or manual exports required. Your source site stays fully operational throughout the process.
How it works:
<ol>
<li>Generate a migration token in your <a href="https://www.hostney.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Hostney control panel</a></li>
<li>Install this plugin on your source WordPress site</li>
<li>Go to Tools > Hostney Migration and paste the token</li>
<li>Click “Start migration” in the Hostney control panel</li>
<li>The worker pulls your database and files automatically</li>
</ol>
What gets migrated:
<ul>
<li>All database tables (exported row-by-row with primary key pagination)</li>
<li>All WordPress files (transferred in chunks with checksum verification)</li>
<li>File permissions and directory structure</li>
</ul>
What gets excluded automatically:
<ul>
<li>Cache directories</li>
<li>Log files</li>
<li>Backup plugin directories (UpdraftPlus, All-in-One WP Migration, etc.)</li>
<li>Node modules and .git directories</li>
</ul>
Security:
All requests from the Hostney worker are authenticated using HMAC-SHA256 signatures with timestamp validation and replay protection. Tokens are cleared automatically when the plugin is deactivated.
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
This plugin sends the following data to Hostney servers (api.hostney.com) when you click Connect:
<ul>
<li>Your site URL and REST API URL</li>
<li>WordPress version</li>
<li>PHP version</li>
<li>Number of database tables and total database size</li>
<li>Number of files and total file size</li>
<li>Active theme name and active plugin count</li>
</ul>
This data is used solely to register and plan the migration. No file contents, database rows, passwords, or personal data are transmitted during the connection step.
During an active migration (initiated from the Hostney control panel), the Hostney worker connects to your site’s REST API endpoints to read database tables and files. All requests are authenticated with HMAC-SHA256 signatures. Data is transferred over HTTPS.
For more information, see the <a href="https://www.hostney.com/documents/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Hostney Privacy Policy</a>.

Hostney Migration

Migrate your WordPress site to Hostney hosting. Paste your migration token and Hostney handles the rest automatically.

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SiteGround

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<h4>SiteGround Migrator: the easiest way to move your site to SiteGround</h4>
This plugin is designed to automate the transfer of a WordPress instance to a SiteGround hosting account. It can’t be used to transfer a WordPress instance to another hosting provider.
Important: This solution is not suitable for migrating localhost WordPress sites or for Full Multisite installations (separate Multisite blogs are fine).
<h4>How to Use</h4>
First, you need to get a transfer token from your SiteGround account. You can do this through the WordPress Migrator tool located in the WordPress section of your SiteGround hosting control panel.
Once you select the domain name that you want to initiate the transfer for, our system will generate a transfer token for you.Paste the token in your SiteGround Migrator plugin and press Initiate Transfer. That’s all!

SiteGround Migrator


With all other ISPs I will only set up Wordpress migrations manually - upload files, revise the DB to match the final url, upload data to the new home, update permalinks if necessary. Just recently I decided to give SiteGround's migration plugin a try. And ohmygosh is it simple and non-intrusive and perfect. Nice work, y'all.


I normally HATE giving up full control, but...


Has never worked for me, even when moving from one SG account to another. Have tried it on maybe half a dozen sites.


Never worked


Thank you SiteGround for such a brilliant plugin - it makes launching new websites so smooth and easy, and we love teaching our DIY website students how to use this plugin when they launch their beautiful new websites!


Makes launching so smooth!


Solo una de cada 10 transferencias funcionó.



useful and necessary plugin for beginners and not only


necessary plugin for beginners and not only


Every time I use this, and I've used it a dozen times or more, I have to double and triple check which site is the source and which site is the destination. The documentation does not make it clear, and it's easy to make a mistake. Getting it wrong will wipe your existing site and replace it with the blank site you're attempting to migrate it to. There's no reason why they are unable to explain their own product in plain English, using simple words like FROM and TO.


Terrifyingly vague

Transfer your WordPress website to SiteGround without any hassle in a completely automated way using SiteGround Migrator.

Hostney Migration vs SiteGround Migrator