There may be instances in which Managed Hosting for WordPress doesn’t meet your needs or you want to move to another hosting provider. Follow these steps to manually move a Managed Hosting for WordPress site to a non-managed WordPress host.
• An unmanaged host account that is set up and has a working installation of WordPress to move your site to. The contents of the WordPress site you’re moving to will be overwritten.
• An FTP client to move your site files. There are many third-party FTP clients available, we recommend the FileZilla FTP client.
• A text editor to make the necessary changes in a SQL file. There are many third-party text editors available, we recommend Notepad++. Do not edit files in this series with a word processing application like Microsoft Word.
• Give yourself 30-60 minutes to complete all six steps.
- Download your site files
- Export your site database
- Upload your site files
- Edit SQL file for import
- Import your site database
- Make final edits