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Although this video is about moving your website from Hostgator to WA's hosting, it can actually work for almost every other webhosts out there because basically, we need only to...
1. Back up your files from your webhost
2. Transfer those files here at WA through FileZilla
3. Contact Wealthy Affiliate's support to double check and reconfirm.
Don't worry about FileZilla, you don't have to understand how it works because you'll be only using it just this once to move your website. Wealthy Affiliate makes everything easier for you to handle your website which is why we don't cover the use of FTP clients here as it is very technical.
FileZilla is free to download, and Welshy has even covered the installation part here...
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/ftp-filezilla-connecting-to-domain-via-ftp
That's it, now you can say goodbye to Hostgator!
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I then contacted WA's support and they told me that my content should still be within Hostgator so they asked me to retrieve the file so that they can receive it through FTP. So I backed up my files in Hostgator, installed FileZilla, transferred those files there, contacted Wa's support team again and hope for the best and that's how I managed to move my site. It looks complicated but if you look at it from an overview, its easier to grasp :D
1.Download file from hostgator
2.I have 10 domains to transfer ,do I change nameservers so I can create new domains in WA at this stage or do I wait until I upload file?
3.Upload hostgator file to one of my domains?
4.Sent support ticket to WA to separate the file?
Thanks in Advance...
Tom
While waiting for your backup file to finish loading, you can head over to your domain provider and change the DNS. You need to do that for each and everyone of your websites and you can do that any time you feel comfortable with, no worries. Once you've uploaded the Hostgator file to your domain through FTP, you can just direct with the WA support team and they can help separate the files for you. hope that helps!