marathonhosting

Marathon Migration is the official plugin for moving your WordPress site to <a href="https://marathonhosting.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Marathon Hosting</a>. It handles everything automatically — your files, database, themes, plugins, and media — so you arrive on Marathon Hosting with a complete, working copy of your site.
No FTP. No cPanel. No manual database exports. No downtime on your current site.
How to migrate:
<ol>
<li>Log in to your Marathon Hosting account and generate a migration token from your site’s overview page</li>
<li>Install and activate this plugin on your current WordPress site</li>
<li>Go to Marathon Migration in your WordPress admin and paste your token</li>
<li>Click Start Migration — most sites complete in 2–10 minutes</li>
</ol>
That’s it. Your current site stays online the entire time.
What gets transferred:
<ul>
<li>Your complete database</li>
<li>All WordPress core files (your exact version — no forced upgrades)</li>
<li>All themes, plugins, uploads, and media</li>
<li>Must-use plugins</li>
</ul>
What does not transfer:
<ul>
<li>Server-specific configuration files — your new Marathon Hosting environment provides its own</li>
<li>Cache files and cache plugin output — these are rebuilt fresh on your new server</li>
<li>Log files and backup archives created by other plugins</li>
<li>Host-specific platform code from your previous host — these belong to your old host, not your site</li>
<li>The migration plugin itself — automatically removed after a successful transfer</li>
</ul>
What is not supported:
WordPress multisite installs are not currently supported. If the plugin detects a multisite network it will refuse to start the migration with a clear error before any data is transferred. Contact Marathon Hosting support if you need to migrate a multisite network.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to the Marathon Hosting Gateway to coordinate your site migration. This service is required — without it the plugin cannot validate your migration token or connect your current site to your new Marathon Hosting environment.
The Gateway is contacted only after you paste a token and click Start Migration. No data is sent before you explicitly begin.
This service is operated by Marathon Hosting:
<ul>
<li>Terms of Service: https://marathonhosting.com/tos.html</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://marathonhosting.com/pp.html</li>
</ul>

Marathon Migration

Move your WordPress site to Marathon Hosting in minutes — no FTP, no manual exports, no downtime.

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.

Marathon Migration vs Hostney Migration