I followed @eivind@social.lol advice and moved my WordPress website (camiel.schoonens.nl) to Pikapod early this morning. I didn’t use any of the paid plugins available, as I expected this to be a relatively easy migration process. In the end, WordPress is a filesystem and a single database, and all site content is saved in the wp-content folder.
@camiel 20 euros per month for WordPress hosting sounds like a lot for a personal website. Are you using any particular plugins or storing a lot of media on your site?
If you consider micro.blog a suitable replacement you could also look into omg.lol’s own weblog-service(http://weblog.lol), or blog tools like Pika(https://pika.page/).
The ways to create and publish a website is vast and very few of them should cost as much as you’re currently using on WordPress hosting. For WordPress you can get a Pikapod for as low as $2 per month, hosted in the EU.
The entire process took me about 15 minutes once I figured out the steps to follow:
- Download the wp-content folder from the old domain host via FTP.
- Export the database as a SQL file.
- Create a WordPress website on Pikapod.
- Upload the wp-content folder via FTP.
- Import the database on Pikapod by uploading the SQL file and overwriting the tables there.
- Update the DNS records to point to Pikapod.
