Website moves and takeovers
Leaving your current host, developer or agency? We gather the access, move the site, point the domain, and check every page, email and form in its new home.
Stuck with a site someone else built? We take it over, move it to our hosting and look after it from there. You get a written move plan first, and your current site stays live while we work on a private copy.
Example move plan, fictional business
12+ years
serving local businesses
Real people
US-Based Team
Private copy first
your current site stays live while we work
Yours to keep
you own the domain, content and files
01 / Sounds like you?
Most people come to us in one of these spots. Before we schedule anything, we look at what you have, who holds the access and what the site depends on.
Calls and emails go unanswered, and nobody else knows how the site was put together.
We start from the access you have and track down the rest.
Pages crawl, support tickets sit, and every small problem turns into a project.
We move the site to our managed, cloud-based hosting.
You’re moving on, but the old agency still holds the hosting, the logins, or both.
We talk to them for you, politely and in writing.
Sites spread across different hosts, with renewals and logins nobody can keep track of.
We bring them under one roof, with one team looking after them.
The domain, hosting and email were set up years ago by someone who has since moved on.
We find every account and get the important ones in your name.
Someone else built it, and every small edit means waiting on them.
We take it over. From then on, you send changes to our team.
Whatever the reason, the move works the same way: a written plan, a careful copy and a check of everything after.
02 / Who has the keys?
Moves rarely stall on files. They stall on access. Before anything moves, our team tracks down every account your website depends on and gets it organized.
Don’t know where half of these are? That’s normal, and it’s where we start. Tell us what you have →
03 / What we handle
Hosting, domain, email, forms and search all have to land in the right place. This is the work that goes into every move, so nothing gets left behind at the old host.
01 · Access
02 · Copy
03 · New home
04 · Testing
05 · The switch
06 · After
Moving inboxes to a new email provider, transferring a domain to a new registrar, online stores and moving several sites at once. Your written move plan lists what’s included and what isn’t, before anything changes. Ask about your move →
04 / How the move works
You’ll always know which step we’re on and what, if anything, we need from you.
01
We look at the site, its accounts and everything it connects to.
You share what you know. A website address is enough to start.
02
We take a full backup, gather the access and set up the new home.
You read and approve the written move plan.
03
We copy the site to a private copy and test every page, form and connection.
You look it over if you’d like. It’s optional.
04
We point the domain at a quiet time and bring over anything that changed since the copy.
You nothing. We’ll tell you when it’s done.
05
We check pages, forms and email in the new home, then keep watching.
You cancel the old hosting once we confirm it’s safe.
05 / Search and email
Moving hosts shouldn’t change your web addresses or your inboxes, so most of this work is keeping things exactly as they are. When something does have to change, we plan for it in writing.
Changing to a new domain name or new page addresses takes more planning, and rankings can shift after any big change. We plan it with you and watch closely after the switch.
06 / Website takeovers
Plenty of the sites we look after started with another developer or agency. Once yours has moved, it gets the same weekly care as every other site we manage.
07 / Pricing and care
No two moves are the same, so we look at your site first and quote it in writing. These are the things that shape the plan.
Want a redesign too? Ask us about the discount on redesigns when your site joins the Agent Care Plan.
08 / Website move questions
Something else on your mind? Ask us directly, or email support@hostagent.net.
Briefly at most. We build and test the new copy while your current site stays live, then plan the switch for a quiet time. For a short while after, some visitors may still reach the old site while the change spreads, which is normal.
Your email addresses stay the same. We copy your email records before anything changes and leave them as they are, then check that mail is still arriving after the switch. If your email lives with your current web host, we look at that first and plan for it in writing.
No. Your domain can stay where it is registered. We change only the records that point it to your website. If it’s registered under someone else’s account, we help you get it into your name.
Usually, yes. We start from whatever access you have, help you request the rest from the host, the registrar and other accounts, and tell you plainly if something is stuck.
Yes. A move copies the site you have, as it is. If you’d like a redesign too, we can plan both, and you can ask us about the discount on redesigns when your site joins the Agent Care Plan.
Yes. Stores take a little more planning, so we choose a quiet time, plan around orders coming in, and test checkout before and after the switch. It’s all in your written move plan.
We list every premium plugin and theme during our first look. On the Agent Care Plan, we pay for premium plugin licenses and themes in most cases, and we’ll tell you which of yours we take over.
After we confirm everything works in its new home. We’ll tell you when it’s safe. Until then, leave the old account as it is.
It depends on the size of the site, whether it takes orders or bookings, how many sites there are and how much access needs tracking down. We send a written move plan and quote before anything changes. Moving to the Agent Care Plan? Ask us how the move is handled.
No. Tell us what you know, even if that’s only your website address. We handle the technical side and keep you posted in plain language.
Send us your website address and whatever you know about where it lives today. We’ll look it over and send you a written move plan.
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