Migrating Websites into Wealthy Affiliate Was Easier Than I Imagined

I was hosting my websites at Bluehost for a few years and it just took one incident with support to realize that I didn't want my services hosted there. So I started looking for alternatives. At the very same time, I was looking at streamlining my business and cutting costs where services overlapped or I just wasn't using.

I can pretty much say I'll probably be a Wealthy Affiliate Lifer. I mean even if you realize that some replies are canned, you do also receive genuine responses from the ambassadors of the program.

A few weeks ago, I had started contemplating migrating websites here and so I started asking questions in the community. I got some answers but even when you get answers, it's still uncertain and you still have a fear of whether or not you should do it. So I did one to see how the process worked. And it was really simple. So I just did all of my websites. Over the Course of 3 days, I migrated 6 websites, only because I was skeptical at first.

I've laid out the steps below and it didn't take more than a few hours in my experience per site. Support was very responsive and they were able to answer most if not all of my questions.

So I know you are reading this because you may be considering this. Don't worry. You're migrated site will be up and you can double-check, triple-check your site before you decide to take the other site down.

I'm still learning just like everyone else and that is why I've decided to move my websites here. One less platform, a community that you can grow with, training whenever you need it and so much more. So here's the steps...

How to Transfer Your Wordpress Website into Wealthy Affiliate

1) Open a Site Support ticket with Wealthy Affiliate

2) Provide the domain and admin credentials of the site you want to migrate

3) Site Support will use a siterubix domain and create a copy of your website

4) Check it out and let Site Support know if there are issues or if it’s good to go

5) Once good to go, change the domains Nameservers to point to Wealthy Affiliate

6) Go to Site Domains and add the domain

7) Click the Move button on your temporary siterubix website to create actual website

8) Check it out and let Site Support know if there are issues or if it’s good to go

9) Request for Site Support to move the website to a Cloudflare-compatible server

10) Once complete, point to the domain Nameservers back to Cloudflare

11) Site Support will provide you with the Cloudflare-compatible server info

12) Create A record for @ pointing to Cloudflare-compatible server

13) Create CNAME record for www pointing to Cloudflare-compatible server

14) If using Wealthy Affiliate email services:

a. Create CNAME record for mail pointing to Cloudflare-compatible server

b. Create MX record for @ pointing to mail.[domain.com]

c. Go to Site Email and create your emails

15) Check it out and let Site Support know if there are issues or if it’s good to go

If you have any questions, you can always reach out to me.