Migrating everything to WordPress.com

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    jholmes904 · Member ·

    Hello! I currently pay for quite a few things in a few different places. I am looking to migrate everything to WordPress.com for my two websites and I have a few questions. I currently pay for hosting/security for each site AND I pay GoDaddy for my email. So here are my questions:
    -If I migrate both my sites to WordPress.com what will my cost be? I see the business account cost for one site, but is that doubled for two?
    -How can I get my email transferred from GoDaddy to wordpress.com? Is there a way I can do this for free on Google?
    -Any helpful tips or tricks before I migrate everything? I don’t want to lose any data!!

    I am thankful for any help that you can provide!

  • staff-mckluskey · Staff ·

    Hi there!

    Let me try to answer your questions.

    If I migrate both my sites to WordPress.com what will my cost be? I see the business account cost for one site, but is that doubled for two?

    Each site would require it’s own plan so if you want to purchase Business plan for both sites, these will be to independent purchases. You’ll be able to transfer for free one domain for each site. You will not pay anything else for the domain until the next year. The price of the domain renewal will depend on its extension (TLD). You can see those prices here:

    https://wordpress.com/support/domains/domain-pricing-and-available-tlds/

    How can I get my email transferred from GoDaddy to wordpress.com? Is there a way I can do this for free on Google?

    We do not offer email hosting although we partnered up with Google and you can purchase GSuite directly from your WordPress.com dashboard. If you’re looking for a free option, you can check Zoho’s free plan. If you decide to keep your email with GoDaddy, you’ll want to add some MX records for it to keep working. You can find all that info here:

    https://wordpress.com/support/add-email/#using-other-email-providers

    Any helpful tips or tricks before I migrate everything? I don’t want to lose any data!!

    I’d suggest having a look at this guide we prepared:

    https://wordpress.com/support/coming-from-self-hosted/

    Let me know if you have any more questions regarding that :)

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    jholmes904 · Member ·

    Thank you very much! I will let you know if I have any more questions!

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