Considering hosting on WordPress.com under the Business Plan

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    evelynlearning · Member ·

    Hi there.
    We currently have our corporate WordPress website hosted on GoDaddy. It is difficult for us to manage this on our own. Is it easily possible to move it to WordPress.com hosting under the Business Plan as it is (without the need for redesigning the pages etc)?
    Currently the site is slow, and its blogsite is very slow. How can the site become faster once we shift to WordPress.com?

    I don’t have a site with WordPress.com yet

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    As your current site is already built with the WordPress software, you can move the entire site, including theme, plugins, and any customizations you have, to us using only a few clicks on the Business Plan. You’ll just need to install the Jetpack plugin on the current site and use that to connect the site to your WordPress.com account.

    You can find a detailed overview of the process here:

    https://wordpress.com/en/support/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/

    If you want to migrate your domain registration to us as well, that’s included for free on all our annual plans, and will renew your domain for an extra year on top of the current registration term.

    https://wordpress.com/en/support/move-domain/incoming-domain-transfer/

    Currently the site is slow, and its blogsite is very slow. How can the site become faster once we shift to WordPress.com?

    There are many reasons a site can be slow – it could be your hosting setup, but it could also be the combination of theme and plugins you have installed, or your content itself. Sites that have a lot of widgets, or where the content is very image-heavy, tend to be slower than more minimalist sites, for example. So it’s difficult to answer this without first doing an in-depth analysis of your current site.

    What I can tell you is that our hosting infrastructure is as as good as you’ll get, and we have a CDN (content distribution network) for both media files and static resources on your site that ensures no matter where in the world someone is, they’re always getting your site’s data from a server that’s geographically closest to them.

    And if there’s issues on the site once you move it to us, our team is always happy to take a closer look and offer advice on what you could do to improve things.

    Let me know if you have any other questions about this.

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