Migration

Whether your organization is moving from one datacenter to another, connecting to the cloud for additional computing resources, or integrating a failover site, migrating data is an essential process for organizations of all sizes. Without in-house migration expertise, transferring data from one machine to another poses significant challenges for many businesses. These include keeping the infrastructure continuously running, maintaining data integrity and ensuring security throughout the migration process.
Hosting.com's migration solutions combine proven experience, advanced tools and unparalleled support to minimize downtime and make the migration process fast, easy and painless.
After 12+ years of helping clients migrate their websites, applications, infrastructures and data centers, we have perfected the migration process and provide guidance and assistance to help your migration to Hosting.com meet your performance and security needs. Once you are a Hosting.com client, our robust platform allows seamless migration from any of our solutions to another to meet your changing business needs.
Benefit from Proven Migration Expertise
Hosting.com's expert migration team and hosted support staff assist businesses like yours to succeed in every step of migration-from developing strategic plans that fit your unique business goals to testing data on the new environment to ensure accurate configurations.
Whether you need consultation or full migration services, we work closely with your organization to create a timeline that fits your schedule, and provide the level of assistance that your organization requires. Whether you use our services or complete the migration yourself - our migration process documentation and guidance is readily available.
Choose from Flexible Migration Options
Our migration solutions offer the flexibility to migrate your entire infrastructure at one time or to migrate the system in stages that meet your company's timelines and budget. Our migration solutions allow you to move data among your own servers or to a managed or cloud hosting environment, where we can ensure that your infrastructure runs continuously. And we help you eliminate concerns over data integrity and security threats by moving email or Microsoft Exchange messaging platforms to one of our managed or cloud hosting solutions.
To accelerate the process, our migration team employs advanced migration tools and gains direct access to your organization's servers. This facilitates the configuration of IIS/Apache as well as DSN's SSL certificates and other features configured on new servers.
The Migration Process Perfected
With over 25,000 website migrations, 100,000 mailbox migrations, countless application and datacenter migrations Hosting.com has perfected the migration process to ensure that your transition to Hosting.com is painless. With our scalable, connected platforms your migration to the Hosting.com platform(s) may be the last migration you ever need to complete!
- Shared to VPS/Cloud/Dedicated migrations
- 1 DB (MSSQL or MySQL)
- 1 Website Email (up to 15 users)
- Web Server Configurations and setups
- Provides up to 3 hours of Migration assistance and testing
- Multiple shared site migrations
- Most VPS to Cloud Enterprise and Dedicated solutions
- Email, database and content
- Site configurations
- 5-6 hours of migration assistance and testing
- Most Dedicated to Dedicated server migrations
- Email, database and content
- Site configurations
- Firewall and load balancer configuration assistance
- Third party software installations
- 10-15 hours of migration assistance and testing
The cost for email migrations vary greatly depending on the source and location servers. Complex email migrations may take many hours to complete due to the time it takes to copy email. Email migrations to Exchange require Professional Services time. Examples of email storage types:
- Mbox (sendmail, Imail)
- Maildir (qmail, postfix, Exim, dovecot, courier)
- MIX (IMAP, UW IMAP)
- Database Mail Storage (Exchange, Cyrus IMAP)
- Plain Text MIME Format (Smartermail)
Going across platform or storage types generally raises the complexity of the migration. These are only examples of services offered. Contact a Hosting.com Sales Executive for a quote on all migration services.



