Cap Web Solutions

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Provide Hosting Migration Info

Awesome! You have asked Cap Web Solutions to perform a hosting migration. This is exciting.

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Maybe you are launching a brand new website, or you have just completed a massive update and the new site is sitting on a staging or development server somewhere.

Maybe you are moving to a new web host who is more closely aligned with your preferences.

Let’s get rolling.

Since we are moving from one server to a different server, we need a couple of different logins to make this happen. They include:

  • Logon account to your current website. This account is a new user you create on your WordPress website for Cap Web Solutions’ team use. WPBeginner.com has a great post on just how to do this.
    • You only need to fill in a few fields and click a couple of items:
      • Username -> capwebsolutions
      • Email Address -> wpcare@capwebsolutions.com
      • Role -> Select Administrator

Don’t worry about the password or any of the other fields. When all of this is filled in, click the Add New User button, and you are done.

If we have been working with your website already, then this task is probably already completed.

  • Your login credentials at your domain registrar – this is the place where you purchased your domain name. You pay your registrar yearly for the ownership of your domain name.

When it comes to sending access credentials (usernames and passwords) I prefer that you send this information via a secure note. I recommend using secure, encrypted, one-time-only notes for this purpose. 

Cap Web Solutions recommends 1ty.me

When you reach that page follow these steps to create your secure note:

  • Enter the login information (web address, username, password, etc) into the grey box as a note. 
  • Press the green ‘Generate Link’ button.
  • Copy the link using the ‘Copy Link’ button
  • Paste that link into the form below and send it to me

Here is a quick little template to use so that you can provide everything we may need. Copy the lines below and paste them into the body of the secure note. 

Current web host url: 
Current username: 
Current password:
-or-
Current web host FTP/sFTP login.
Current web host FTP/sFTP host address:
Current web host FTP/sFTP username:
Current web host FTP/sFTP password:
Current web host FTP/sFTP port:
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NEW web host URL:
NEW host username: 
NEW host password:
-or-
NEW web host FTP/sFTP login.
NEW web host FTP/sFTP host address:
NEW web host FTP/sFTP username:
NEW web host FTP/sFTP password:
NEW web host FTP/sFTP port:
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Registrar URL: 
Registrar username:
Registrar password:

Once you have gathered all the access information (and tested that it works – thank you) create the 1ty.me secure and send it to us via email.

Note that the link you are creating is a one-time view link. After it is opened once, it can never be opened again – SO DON’T CHECK IT OUT TO SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE! It works. Trust me.

Questions about all this? Contact us.

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