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How to migrate my website to digital ocean?

I have one website on WordPress, but I want to know how to migrate it on digital ocean free of cost for 2 months, which is given by the digital ocean to me.Kindly someone help me to solve this issue for me.


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Bobby Iliev
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October 17, 2022
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Hi there,

One option here would be to create a new WordPress Droplet using the 1-Click installation here:

https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/wordpress

Then you could use the Duplicator plugin which allows you to create an export of your existing website, and then import that exported archive to the newly created WordPress installation on the DigitalOcean side.

Alternatively, if you have to move some of the data manually you can do that via ssh using scp or rsync. Another option is to use an FTP client like FileZilla:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-copy-files-with-rsync-over-ssh

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/transfer-files/

Hope that this helps!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Best,

Bobby

I am in the process of migrating a WordPress website from InMotion Hosting to DigitalOcean. I am documenting my experience at https://jaimemontoya.com/blog/2023/12/10/05/59/.

alexdo
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July 5, 2024

Hello there,

We do have an article that covers the process, although it is with deprecated status, however, you can check it here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-migrate-wordpress-from-shared-hosting-to-a-cloud-server-with-zero-downtime

You can use the WP All in One plugin or Duplicator to migrate all of your WordPress websites.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

If you have to move some of the data manually you can do that via ssh using scp or rsync. Another option is to use an FTP client like FileZilla

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-copy-files-with-rsync-over-ssh

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/transfer-files/

Hope that this helps!

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