Free WordPress Migration Plugin For Effortless Migrations.

Use our free WP migration plugin for a hassle-free transition. With our expert human support and no costs involved, we’ll handle the hard work while you build an exceptional website.

No Credit Card Required

Migrate Your WordPress Site
in 3 Easy Steps.

Carry unlimited site migrations with the WordPress Migrator plugin for a quick and stress-free experience.

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Install the Plugin

Get started by installing and activating the Cloudways free WordPress Migration plugin.

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Connect Cloudways Server

Fill in the server credentials in the Cloudways panel.

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Migrate Your Website

Initiate the migration process and track progress until it’s done successfully.

Why Migrate to Cloudways
Hosting for WordPress?

Because you want a hosting provider that’s reliable, fast, secure, and always available.

Speed

We have partnered with the leading cloud providers to ensure 99.99% uptime and loading speeds of 200–400 milliseconds.

Security

Stay protected with end-to-end encryption, free SSL certification, two-factor authentication, and advanced DDoS attack mitigation with Cloudflare Enterprise.

Support

Cloudways’ 96% CSAT speaks volumes about its best-in-class support, which includes 24/7 access to a team of experts.

Scalability

No page loading delays during traffic spikes or when your site grows. Scale up with ease when you need additional resources.

Pricing

Simple & clear pricing plans. No website or visitor caps, overage charges, or no renewal costs. Just pay for what you use.

Maintenance

Expert maintenance, including updates, security checks, and performance optimization for your server.

Pay-as-You-Go Plans That Adapt to Your Budget.

Pick up a cloud hosting plan that you can always scale up/down to optimize operational costs.

Select Cloud Provider

  • Fastest growing & affordable cloud provider with high-performance SSD standard and NVMe storage premium servers across 9 locations. Select the perfect fit from their Basic, General Purpose, and CPU Optimized server lineup.

    DigitalOcean

  • Across 30 locations, Vultr provides standard servers featuring SSD storage and high frequency servers with NVMe storage powered by the fastest architecture available in the Vultr product lineup.

    Vultr

  • Popular cloud emphasizing consistent performance across 25 datacenters. Choose Linode if you wish top quality performance at a pocket—friendly budget.

    Linode

  • Flexible Amazon cloud compute (EC2) with configurable storage/bandwidth across 28 datacenters. AWS supports dynamic vertical scaling with options to both upgrade and downgrade server resources. Select the perfect fit from their Standard and Compute Optimized server lineup.

    AWS

  • Google Compute Engine (GCE) is an extremely powerful cloud hosting infrastructure with the efficient performance that comes with Google's brand name. With 28 datacenters, GCE supports dynamic vertical scaling with options to both upgrade and downgrade server resources. Select the perfect fit from their Standard, Compute Optimized and High Compute server lineup.

    GoogleCloud

Select Server Type

  • DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.

    Basic
  • DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.

    General Purpose
  • DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.

    CPU Optimized
  • DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.

    Standard
  • Standard

    DigitalOcean Standard Droplets, powered by 2nd generation or earlier Intel CPUs and standard SSD, are perfect for general-purpose workloads and all your applications, offering networking speeds up to 2 Gbps.

  • Premium

    DigitalOcean Premium Droplets are powered by 2nd or 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and faster NVME storage delivering higher network throughput up to 10 Gbps for your most demanding applications.

Micro

Suitable for personal websites and simple blogs.

$11

$11

USD per month

You pay $0.0357 hourly

  • 2GB RAM
  • 1 vCPU
  • 50GB Storage
  • 2TB Transfer Bandwidth
  • 5 Free AI Copilot Credits
  • Lightning Stack
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  • Unlimited Visits
  • Unlimited Websites
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Small

Suitable for growing businesses & moderate traffic.

$11

$11

USD per month

You pay $0.0357 hourly

  • 2GB RAM
  • 1 vCPU
  • 50GB Storage
  • 2TB Transfer Bandwidth
  • 5 Free AI Copilot Credits
  • Lightning Stack
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  • Unlimited Visits
  • Unlimited Websites
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8XL

Ideal for e-com stores and resource-intensive applications.

$11

$342

$342

USD per month

You pay $1.0848 hourly

  • 128GB RAM
  • 24 vCPU
  • 2560GB Storage
  • 11TB Transfer Bandwidth
  • 5 Free AI Copilot Credits
  • Lightning Stack
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  • Unlimited Visits
  • Unlimited Websites
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$0.033/GB per server will be applied for offsite backup storage.

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Save time and money with premium features and integrations included in every plan.

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  • Free Migration
  • Free Object Cache Pro
    (Worth $95/Mon)
  • Free AI Copilot Credits
  • Lightning Stack
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  • Free Redis Cache
    (Worth $100/Mon)
  • Built-in Firewall with IP Blocking
  • Vertical Scaling
  • Free Advanced Staging
    & Cloning (Worth $20)
  • Free WordPress Vulnerability Scanner

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Save time and money with premium features and integrations included in every plan.

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  • Free Cloudflare Enterprise (Worth $250/Mon)
  • Autoscaling
  • 24/7 Chat & Ticketing Support
  • Free Object Cache Pro (Worth $95/Mon)
  • Load Balancing
  • Built-in Firewall & DDoS Protection
  • Free Advanced Staging & Cloning (Worth $20)
  • Multiple PHP Versions
  • Free Managed Migrations

Limited time offer

Unlock Lifetime Advance Support Save $75 Now!

Current price is $100/mo or 10% of your invoice New discounted price will be $25/mo flat

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Have Complete Peace of Mind with Our Free Migration.

In addition to our free WP migration plugin, enjoy ONE free migration handled by our experts. Simply open a support ticket, and we’ll cover the rest. Our support team is available 24/7/365, and you can enhance your experience even further with our optional Advanced support add-on.

Migrate Now Website.

Drive Traffic to Websites Without
Any Fears of Downtime.

This high-availability hosting adapts to your business in real-time with its autoscaling, so you can enjoy peace of mind while focusing on your most important tasks, delivering results, and staying competitive.

The Cloudways WordPress Migrator plugin is reliable and has been tested on hundreds of hosting environments. Plus, it’s FREE! And if there are any hiccups, we’ve got your back.

Expedite your web apps with Cloudways ThunderStack – a powerful combination of Apache, Nginx, Varnish, and Memcached (with optional Redis), to experience lightning-fast website performance.

Need advice on your website hosting infrastructure? Our platform offers automated recommendations based on your pageviews data. Also, our proficient cloud engineers are always available to ensure your hosting setup is optimized for success.

Worried about bugs during migration? Don’t fret. Our cloud experts will keep your website intact while moving to Cloudways, so you can migrate with confidence.

Freelance Developers, Design Professionals
& Marketers Love Cloudways.

With Cloudways, you can host unlimited websites on one server. You only pay for
what you use, saving additional costs—no plugin restrictions.

Freelancer

Specify is the perfect addition to our front-end boilerplate. Tokens, assets, fonts. Everything come straight out from Figma. Less configuration, more creative development. Our team loves it.

Gabriel Marcolongo

Founder at Incluyeme

Ecommerce

Tried many plugins but real speed never really improved. Moved to Cloudways and I’m amazed at REAL speed improvements, and so the transfers begin!

Jamie Knop

@JamieKnop

Agency

I am using DigitalOcean Plan in Cloudways and I can confirm it is very good. Also, additional the backup with my hosting is awesome too.

Suraj Katwal

Freelancer

The site’s loading time was greatly improved… I have a total of 14 clients on the platform and am in the process of migrating more.

Jyll S

President and Founder

Ecommerce

Cloudways is super easy, super fast and cost effective (we run 5 sites on a single instance for 40$/month!)

Elad Levy

@mrlevyelad

Agency

Excellent option for those looking for High-End WordPress Hosting. I have been using Cloudways for two years and the performance in amazing.

César R

Small-Business Owner

Freelancer

@cloudways
Can’t believe how much faster my WP site is after switching… not even close to my old host. So important w/ Google’s new SEO rules.

Kristen

@hikristennn

Ecommerce

Cloudways has fulfilled our expectations. It is a great service and keeps our website up and running nicely.

Amit Kothari

Founder at Tallyfy

Freelancer

I love that Cloudways has made cloud hosting available to non-technical IT people like myself…the new website was up and running within a few hours.

Chris A

Photography

Agency

Digital agencies like ours get to have multiple servers from different providers in one place.

John Falzon

Managing Director at Keen

Ecommerce

Gamechanger… completely elevated my ability to service my clients. Their support staff are extremely knowledgeable and the platform offers all the flexibility and scalability.

Walter

Kreetiv Studio

Freelancer

I wish I had discovered @Cloudways earlier. Their services and support are just amazing!

Jan Tegze

@jantegze

Agency

A simple management dashboard, combined with amazing chat support, reduces costs for outsourced server ops services.

Bet Hannon

CEO BH Business Websites

Ecommerce

Cloudways is strangely fast, literally. I mean, I don’t know why but it’s just fast.

Nathan

@zartre

Convenience With Cloudways.

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Frequently Asked Questions

There are a few ways to migrate your WordPress site for free, including using a manual approach or a free migration plugin, i.e., Cloudways WordPress Migrator plugin. At Cloudways, you get one free migration handled fully by our experts without breaking your site.

You can migrate unlimited WordPress websites on Cloudways using the free Cloudways WordPress Migrator plugin.


Here's how you can use the migration plugin to migrate your WordPress sites:


  • Go to your WordPress dashboard.
  • Click Plugins > Add New.
  • Search for the "Cloudways WordPress Migrator" plugin.
  • Install & activate the plugin.
  • Now click on the plugin, and enter your email address.
  • Agree to the terms & conditions and click Migrate.
  • Enter your Destination Site URL.
  • Enter your SFTP Host/Server Address & Database Name.
  • Click Migrate to migrate your WordPress site.

The Cloudways WordPress Migrator Plugin is considered among the best migration plugins for WordPress for several reasons:


  • It’s easy to use, even for beginners with limited technical knowledge.
  • It helps you seamlessly migrate your site files and database, ensuring your site is fully replicated on your new hosting account.
  • It lets you carry quick and efficient migrations with minimal downtime.
  • Unlike other migration plugins, it offers a very secure migration process and generates secure access & secret keys for your site protection during migration.

Overall, the free WordPress Migration Plugin by Cloudways offers a comprehensive, secure, and easy-to-use solution for WordPress website migrations.

You may want to migrate a WordPress website to a new host for several reasons, including poor website performance, inadequate support from your current host, or the need for more resources or scalability. Also, migrating to a managed host like Cloudways will considerably improve your website's speed, reliability, and security after migration.

Cloudways provides two easy ways to migrate your WordPress website:


  • Asking the Cloudways support for migration.
  • Using the Cloudways WordPress Migrator plugin.

It’s worth noting that Cloudways offers one free migration carried by its support experts without breaking your sites. Or you can always use the WordPress migration plugin by Cloudways to carry unlimited site migrations for free.

Cloudways supports migrations from various platforms, including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and more. However, it's important to note that some platforms may require additional steps or custom solutions for a successful migration.

No, Cloudways does not impose any restrictions on its website migrations. You can safely migrate from any hosting platform to Cloudways without any hassles.

The time it takes to migrate a website can vary depending on several factors, such as website size, complexity, and migration method.


However, using the Cloudways WordPress Migrator Plugin can significantly reduce the migration time, typically taking less than an hour. Cloudways implements several security measures, like generating secure access and secret keys, providing safe server environments, and SSL encryption to ensure website security during migration.