What are site migration and website backups?

Well, site migration is not a new term in the web hosting industry. Many users change the site to new CMS, from HTTP to HTTPS, URLs, etc. When a website changes from one environment to another, it is called site migration. When a user changes his domain, it also comes under site migration. Change in URL structure is also a site migration. Remember, when there is change, whether big or small, on your website it is considered as site migration.

Let’s understand what type of site migration can take place.

Change in URL

If you want to change letters in your URL or shorten it to avoid misspelling and easy to pronounce or to make a future proof URL by deleting the year in URL, all these actions titled as site migration.

Launching website redesign

To migrate the site, you can alter the theme including adding, deleting and changing content to.

Merge the content

If you have multiple pages of similar content, you can merge them.

Add new services

When you are not satisfied with your existing products and services and want to add something new to the site, it becomes a part of site migration.

Transfer from HTTP to HTTPS

If you want to secure your server connection, and then transfer to HTTPS.

Need for a new CMS

When your website has increased its visitors, and you require more features like memory, disk space, etc., why don’t you think of a new CMS?

Website mergers

In the case of merger and acquisition, you may need to merge your website with your partner business. This is a kind of site migration.

Choose hosting provider

when you require a different and better hosting provider due to unsatisfied experience from the previous one, then purchase hosting from other providers and change the structure of your site.

Sometimes website migration fails to. There are many reasons for this issue. When users are not aware of the risks involved in site migration, it happens. Risks like safety and trust issues are always there when you are going to migrate as you have no idea about the new architecture, plans and web provider, etc.

Poor planning plays a vital role in site migration. Before migration, first, make sure of your requirements that are needed to be changed. Otherwise, you will need something specific to alter, and you change something else in your site that may keep away your loyal customers.

In the case of merger and acquisition, site migration suffers from more mistakes. Sometimes what happens is that when your business partner has little technical knowledge, errors may take place during designing your new web site a lot of things will be there to alter and create and remove.

So when you are confident about migrating your site and considering all the above-discussed factors, only then step forward for this process.

Now forwarding to website backups

Do you think choosing an only top rated web hosting providers plus strong passwords can protect your site? Well, when we talk about the security of a site, it is more than that. To give a cover of protection to your site, the level of security should be tight. This will help you not to lose your crucial data and avoid hacking activities. So what the best way to safeguard your site is by backing up its main information. While the importance of web design and web development is on the peak, the importance of backup planning is also growing.

Most of the web hosting providers offer free and automatic backups with their premium plans and sometimes you will find special backup plans too.

Why do you need a backup solution for your site?

When you think for site migration (like website merger, content modification, entering into new CMS, changes in themes and structure), there will be a great demand for backup solutions in your site.  Make a backup of every content you create. Modification may lead to losing your existing data. So be cautious during site migration. There is a very thin but significant relation between site migration and site backup.

Site backup is very important in case of fraud or hacking of your information. If you follow the proper backup policy to store your data in a prescribed manner, it will take lesser time to restore all your previous data after deactivating or closing your site. You will not need to invest much time to run your operation.

For WordPress users, it is really important to keep their themes and tolls up to date from time to time. But sometimes the updates change the font end appearance on your site. So what you need to do is during a plugin update, reinstate the outdated version of the plugin. Never forget to take down a site file before updating the theme.

There is a plugin available in WordPress to do whatever you want on your site. This plugin notifies you from time to time to make changes and updates that keep your data safe and secure.

But the best part of backing up your site is you can have a backup solution from cPanel also without extra tools. But coming back to your old version cost you.

One of the major possibilities to happen be sometimes your computer may also fail to work. Then what? So, always make a backup for this kind of uncertainty.

One more thing to consider is backup can also mess up your files and data. Therefore, make separate folders of each similar file.