Moving Wordpress Blog to a new web host
It is fairly simple to move a wordpress blog across servers. In fact, I just did that. I gave up on my old host and am now hosting on Rackspace Network. Here is quick checklist:
Move Wordpress Installation
- Download all the scripts - You can skip a cache folder under the wp-content directory
- Go to your existing web hosts PHPMyAdmin page to download your Database as a SQL file.
- Create a new MySQL database with your NEW web host and import this SQL file.
- Upload your scripts to the new web host
- Open wp-config.php and modify the database name, hostname, password accordingly
- Change the DNS at your domain registration service provider, as required
- That's it!