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# Moving your website to Thirdwp

Most of Thridwp’s subscriptions include moving your domain, website, and/or email. To make the transfer of your website and/or e-mail possible, we provide you with what we need from you in this article.

### Moving the website <a href="#id-0-toc-title" id="id-0-toc-title"></a>

#### What do we need from you? <a href="#id-1-toc-title" id="id-1-toc-title"></a>

* Your website’s domain and any additional domains that end up on it.
* FTP Information: FTP host, FTP login, password.
* Control panel data (not necessary, but we can use it to modify or take over domain data in advance): URL (web address), username, and password.
* Transfer code of domain name or names.

### What steps will we take? <a href="#id-2-toc-title" id="id-2-toc-title"></a>

**Preparation**

* We check the data you have sent to us.
* We will look at your current website through FTP and the Internet and create a website on our system on which your site can run properly.
* We set the Time To Live to 5 minutes in your Control Panel, ensuring visitors get to the new website quickly once it has been successfully transferred.
* We will check if there are any special settings that need to be done in the DNS so that everything continues to work.

**Transfer**

* We make sure that all the files of the website and its database(s) are placed on the website at Thirdwp.
* Where necessary, we adjust the configuration.
* We set the website settings (for example, PHP version) correctly for your current site.
* We perform a check to verify that your website is displaying correctly.

**Finalize**

* We change the DNS at the old provider, so visitors arrive at your website at Thirdwp within five minutes.
* We ask you to run a check just to make sure everything is working as it should. For example, placing a test order if you own a webshop.
* We move the domain name to Thirdwp.
* You will receive a confirmation when the domain name has been moved. You can then cancel the given services from your previous provider.

**Optional extras (SSL, optimization, etc.)**

* If you previously had an SSL certificate running, we will install the SSL on your website.
* If there was no SSL running before, we can create it for you and make sure visitors can only visit your website in encrypted form.
* We can perform speed optimization, where we optimize caching and compress images.
* We can upgrade your CMS and plugins. In case you have chosen a subscription with maintenance, we will make sure that your website’s CMS and plugins are updated and remain so. This also ensures that your website is not hackable.

### Moving email <a href="#id-8-toc-title" id="id-8-toc-title"></a>

We can create new email accounts on our server.