If your WestHost Site Manager account only has website data but no email accounts or databases, then migrating your account to cPanel is very simple. Follow the steps below to get started: Step One: Purchase a cPanel account Step Two: Download your ...

How To Migrate Website Without Databases Or Emails

Step 1: Migrate Your Website Data: 1.1: Purchase a cPanel account 1.2: Download your site content from Site Manager to your local computer using FTP 1.3: Obtain your cPanel IP address 1.4: Upload your website files to your cPanel account using ...

How To Migrate Website and Emails Not Including Databases

This article will walk you through migrating your WestHost Site Manager account to cPanel. If you have any questions about the following steps, please contact our WestHost technical support team. If you are looking to migrate your current Site ...

How To Migrate Website With Databases And Emails

In most cases, our support team can work with you to move your account from Site Manager to cPanel. However, before you can migrate your account, we will first have to review it to be sure that the content is compatible. For more information, please ...

Can WestHost Move My Account From Site Manager To cPanel

Yes, we would like you to migrate your account from Site Manager to cPanel as soon as possible. The site Manager is entering the end-of-life stages and the service will be closed completely shortly. The unfortunate aspect of this migration is that ...

Do I Need To Move My Account From Site Manager To cPanel?

This guide is for Miva Merchant 4. Please see the Miva Merchant 5 guide here. For clients moving away from the Miva Merchant eCommerce option, this guide has some general steps for exporting your data from Miva Merchant. The data can then be imported ...

How To Export MIVA Merchant v4 Products

Note: This guide is for MIVA Merchant 5. If you are still using MIVA Merchant V4, please see the correct guide here. To Export your MIVA Merchant V5 Products, follow the steps below: 1) Log into Miva Merchant Admin. The URL should be in this format: ...

How To Export MIVA Merchant V5 Products

This article is for cPanel accounts. If you are unsure if this is the correct article for you, you can determine the type of account you have with this guide. This article is designed to show you how to create users that can connect to your cPanel ...

How To Connect To cPanel Account Via FTP

With MIVA Merchant 5, you can export affiliate information to a flat file, or a plain-text file containing set types of data, separated by a tab or text character. The flat file allows you to view it in any text editor, import it into a spreadsheet, ...

How To Export MIVA Merchant Affiliates To A File

With MIVA Merchant, you can export customer data to a flat file, or a plain-text file containing set types of data separated by a tab or text character. Flat files allow you to edit the file in any text editor, import it into a spreadsheet, use the ...

How To Export MIVA Merchant Customers

The AWStats application is already preinstalled at the server level in your cPanel account. If you have a lot of log data that needs to be included with your move to cPanel, you will want to migrate the data files for AWStats and copy them to your ...

How To Migrate AWStats 6.95 to cPanel

Please note that we recommend that you DO NOT sync your email until DNS has been moved to your new cPanel account. Download Thunderbird Create email accounts within your new account Connect email accounts in Thunderbird Transferring email Connecting ...

How To Migrate Email To cPanel

Can WestHost move my account from another host? How do I move my account to WestHost myself? How Can I Update Database Information Can WestHost move my account from another host? In many cases, yes we can. To get started, please order the QuickSwitch ...

How To Migrate My Account From Another Host To WestHost

If you have made customizations to your PHP settings within Site Manager, you will want to utilize a local custom php.ini file in your new cPanel account. Please see the related KB article on this process How To Change Custom Local PHP Settings. Your ...

How To Migrate PHP Customizations

The best method for moving MySQL databases is to export them from your PHPMyAdmin tool. If you do not have PHPMyAdmin already installed, you can do so through Site Manager >> Install & Manage. The PHPMyAdmin tool is accessible via your Site Manager ...

How To Move MySQL Databases

This guide was created to help you migrate the website files from your Site Manager to your cPanel hosting account. We will proceed by using the FTP client: FileZilla. It is free and available for both Windows and Apple. Get FileZilla here. Step 1: ...

How To Move Website Files With FileZilla

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine if you have a cPanel account with this guide. You can use an FTP client or program like Fetch, FileZilla, or ws_ftp to connect to your account using FTP protocol. These programs allow you to quickly ...

How To Use FileZilla FTP

This article lists frequently asked questions about migrating a legacy account to cPanel. How do I move my account to cPanel? Can WestHost Support move my account from Site Manager to cPanel? Do I have to pay for both hosting services while I am ...

Legacy Site Manager Migration FAQs

Several applications cannot operate in the cPanel shared environment, based upon the nature of the server system. The current list, which is subject to changes and updates, is as follows. Counter 1.1 Dada Mail Darwin Streaming Server FrontPage ...

List Of Applications That Are NOT Available In cPanel

How can I get my account moved to cPanel? Can WestHost Support move my account from Site Manager to cPanel? Do I have to pay for both hosting services while I am moving my account? How do I get Tech Support to move my account? What are the steps of a ...

Site Manager Migration FAQ

This is a general overview, not a comprehensive guide. When reviewing your account for migration, please consider the following steps that will be required to ensure your website is working properly within the cPanel system: Websites Depending on the ...

Site Manager Review Guide

If your old host is using cPanel (cpanel.com), then we can most likely move your whole account over as it currently is set up. QuickSwitch is not a guaranteed service, so WestHost may not be able to transfer files to your account. For more ...

Will QuickSwitch Move Multiple Sites From Another Provider?

Please note that installing WordPress manually falls outside the scope of free technical support. Our Support teams may not be able to troubleshoot, maintain, or otherwise assist you with this type of WordPress install. Instead, refer to our guide on ...

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