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.
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Hi Robert. I’m trying to figure out how to migrate a site from Jetpage to Wordpress and WA. So far, I managed to transfer domain to WA but I’m having to add each post separately. Is there any way to speed this up?
What I did was ask support, I provided my credentials to Wordpress and they imported to site rubix domain. Try that! I have never worked with Jetpage. There might be a plugin to easily migrate that stuff, but if there is anyone that knows platforms, I'd ask support. I've always worked with Wordpress.
I went through support but they couldn’t transfer from my current hosting provider(Jetpage) to WA. Now I have to add each post individually. Ugh
You could go on Fiverr and see if someone will do that for you so that you can save some time. Or ask jetpage support for a suggestion. Maybe someone else in the community will have had experience. I wish I could provide you more help or guidance :(
If this is a gap in the industry, you could lay out the process and monetize this service 😜
Nice job on laying that out. Many coming to WA from other hosting sites will find this useful!
I have been with WA for a long time and always had my websites hosted here. I did have to get a URL out of GoDaddy to WA which was also pretty easy. I used info from a WA blog to do that. So, these types of posts are very valuable!
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Thank you Sir. Initial response from site support tells me that since the website I want to move is not a Wordpress site, I may not be able to move it to WA. I'm waiting to hear from them to find out if I understand correctly.
Bob
@SteveO324 was in a similar position and ended up moving the content himself, You could hire someone from fiverr to do it for you, but cost may vary. I hope you hear good news out of Site Support.
Hi Bob. I just moved my site from another cms to WA. Pointed the domain to the WA servers but I had to transfer all of my content individually.
Thanks, that may be what I need to do.
I hadn't thought of that. It may be what I need to do. I will find out if my site is Wordpress. I don't think it is but I don't know. I guess that's the key. Thanks for your responses.
Somebody offered to migrate my site to WA for $500, so at the least, I know it can be done. I had about 42 pages to do and it took me 5 days. Slow process due to me ‘fixing’ them along the way. Good luck and let us know how it turns out.