{"id":3976,"date":"2026-03-11T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/my-site-has-been-migrated-what-now\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:40","slug":"my-site-has-been-migrated-what-now","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/my-site-has-been-migrated-what-now\/","title":{"rendered":"My Site Has Been Migrated. What Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a website migration, the next step is to check the copied site before sending visitors to the new hosting account.<\/p>\n<p>If we have provided a preview method, use it to check the site carefully. Look through the main pages, contact forms, images, menus, checkout pages and any areas that are important to your website.<\/p>\n<p>When you are happy that the migrated site is working, the domain can be pointed to the new hosting. This is usually done by changing the domain&#8217;s nameservers or DNS records.<\/p>\n<p>If your domain is managed through 4UHosting:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the client area at https:\/\/clients.4uhosting.co.uk.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>Domains<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Find the domain and select <strong>Manage<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Use the nameserver or DNS options shown for that domain.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If your domain is registered elsewhere, you will need to update the nameservers or DNS records with that provider.<\/p>\n<p>DNS changes can take time to update across the internet. During this period, some visitors may see the old hosting while others see the new hosting.<\/p>\n<p>If email is connected to the same domain, check with support before changing DNS. Website records and email records can be separate and changing the wrong record can interrupt mail delivery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a website migration, the next step is to check the copied site before sending visitors to the new hosting account. If we have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[26],"class_list":["post-3976","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3976\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}