1. Backup/download your site data
2. Create a new WordPress installation with your new host
3. Upload your database files into your new hosting account
4. Upload your content into your new hosting account
5. Adjust your “wp-config.php” file
6. Perform post-migration cleanup
Copy your entire website files/directories from old host to the new host (WP Crono). Shared hosting clients will probably have to do it via cPanel > File Manager compress/extra functions; first compress and download from old server and then upload to new server and extract. Dedicated/VPS server clients with SSH access can do it via command line with RSYNC.
Copy your database from old host to new host (JVPS). Go to phpmyadmin or whichever available database backup function you old host has (ask them for assistance if you don’t know), export the database to your local computer. Then from your WP Crono Control Panel, create a new database and user from MySQL Databases and import your database backup into the new database in phpmyadmin. If your database is large (above 1GB), you should transfer it via SSH.
Create a new database user on the new (WP Crono) server and make sure it has full permissions to the database you just imported.
Update your wp-config file to use the correct database name/user/password that you set up on the WP Crono server.
Point your Cloudflare DNS A records (for “domain.com” and “www”) over to your WP Crono server IP.
After the import…because your site URL changed from live URL (e.g. www.domain.com) to a staging URL (e.g. staging.domain.com), then it's advisable to run a Better Search Replace to rewrite URL’s. (To use Better Search Replace, install the plugin and then put your full domain without the HTTP/HTTPS part…like “Search for – www.domain.com” and “Replace with – staging.domain.com”.)
If you’re coming from a webhost that’s known to have their special plugins (like WPengine), go to the “wp-content/mu-plugins” directory and delete all the files and folders referencing them. You can also back them up elsewhere beforehand if you’re afraid of deleting the wrong files.
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