How to Migrate a Site to Heliohost with 0 DOWNTIME

[robertzo]

Note: This tutorial is made for using Plesk, since we are moving to Plesk.

For Static Sites

So first, you will need to go to Website & Domains (of your Plesk dashboard) and click on Add Domain. Enter your Domain name and leave the rest on default (you can change them if you know what you are doing). Then go to your old host and download all your website files. Go to your Plesk dashboard, click on Files (from the sidebar) and navigate to the folder that is called yourdomain.com. Delete the index.html and upload all of your files there. Now open up Notepad as admin and open this file: C:\Windows\System32\drives\etc\hosts. Add this line of code to the bottom:

Your ip address  yourdomain.com

You can find your IP address in Website and Domains and under the dropdown box of your domain. Make sure to also replace yourdomain.com with your domain. Check if your website is functioning properly

For Non-WordPress Dynamic:

Go to the Website & Domains section (of your Plesk dashboard) and click on Add Domain. Enter your Domain name and leave the rest on default (you can change them if you know what you are doing). Then go to your old host and download all your website files, then go to phpmyadmin and export your database info. Go to your Plesk dashboard, click on Files (from the sidebar) and navigate to the folder that is called yourdomain.com. Delete the index.html and upload all of your files there. Go to Databases and create a new database and database user. Click on phpmyadmin < import and upload the database your just exported. Now open up Notepad as admin and open this file: C:\Windows\System32\drives\etc\hosts. Add this line of code to the bottom:

Your ip address  yourdomain.com

You can find your IP address in Website and Domains and under the dropdown box of your domain. Make sure to also replace yourdomain.com with your domain. Check if your website is functioning properly

Go to the Website & Domains section (of your Plesk dashboard) and click on Add Domain. Enter your Domain name and leave the rest on default (you can change them if you know what you are doing). Then go to your old host and install the Duplicator Plugin (the reason I chose Duplicator and not All in one Migration is because they have no import limit unlike all in one. However if your WordPress site is less than 512 MB, All in one Migration is better since you can use Plesk's WordPress Toolkit). Click on create an archive and follow the instructions.  Go to your Plesk dashboard, click on Files (from the sidebar) and navigate to the folder that is called yourdomain.com. Delete the index.html file and upload the zip archive and installer.php. Open up Notepad as admin and open this file: C:\Windows\System32\drives\etc\hosts. Add this line of code to the bottom:

Your ip address  yourdomain.com

You can find your IP address in Website and Domains and under the dropdown box of your domain. Make sure to also replace yourdomain.com with your domain. Go to yourdomain.com/installer.php and run the installer script. When you are finished log into the admin to automatically delete the duplicator installation files. Check if your website is functioning properly

 

When you are finished with everything, just go to your DNS settings and either point your domain to the IP address or Heliohost's nameservers. Then delete that line you added in notepad (or comment it if you are going to use it later).