Move to Sitewig
Move your website, email and domain from another provider without downtime.
Our most popular guides are in English. Guides marked “(in Danish)” are currently only available in Danish and open the Danish page. Contact support if you need help in English.
13 guides
- How to move to Sitewig: overview and the right order Move your domain, email and website from one.com, Simply, GoDaddy or another provider – in an order where neither email nor website goes down.
- Should I attach or transfer my domain when I move? The difference between keeping the registration and only pointing the domain to Sitewig, and transferring the domain itself – and when to choose which in Move here.
- Transfer your domain to Sitewig with an auth code (.com, .eu and others) How to transfer a .com, .eu or other domain to Sitewig during the move, with the auth code, price, payment and what happens to the name servers afterwards.
- Create your mailboxes at Sitewig before you move your email How to get the same email addresses at Sitewig as with your old provider, using a pasted list of addresses, your own passwords and keeping track of your plan's limit.
- Import your old emails from one.com, Gmail and others (IMAP) Copy all emails and folders from your old provider to Sitewig in step 3 of the moving guide, with presets for one.com, Simply, GoDaddy, Gmail, Yahoo and iCloud.
- Move your WordPress site to Sitewig during the move How to move an existing WordPress site to Sitewig with Move WordPress here, by upload or by fetching via SFTP, and when to point the domain across.
- Move an ordinary website (HTML/PHP) with SFTP and a database If your website is not WordPress, you move the files and the database yourself – with SFTP, the database tool and a corrected configuration file. Step by step at Sitewig.
- Keep your current website or switch to Sitewig during the move Move email and domain now, and let the website stay with the old provider for a little longer, or show a Sitewig site or a parking page. How to choose in step 4.
- Change name servers to Sitewig without downtime When and how to change name servers in step 5 of the moving guide, with the checklist, the records to bring along, and where to change them at one.com, Simply, GoDaddy and Cloudflare.
- Bring your DNS records with you from the old provider Bring verifications, subdomains and your other own DNS records to Sitewig before you change name servers, using Records to bring along or by importing the whole zone.
- Set up your phone and email program after the move After the switch, phones and email programs need to use Sitewig's servers. Download a ready-made profile for iPhone and Mac, or enter IMAP and SMTP yourself.
- Free moving help: what we help with and what it costs Moving help and the domain transfer itself are free at Sitewig. See what you pay for afterwards, and what to have ready when you ask for help.
- Flyt et .dk-domæne til Sitewig: det klarer support (in Danish)Flytning af .dk-domæner sker manuelt hos Sitewig. Kontakt support, så hjælper vi dig. Se hvad du skal skrive, og hvordan du bruger domænet imens.
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