Migrate a site from Aruba Hosting using SSH

This guide will show you how to securely share access to your site using SSH, so that you can migrate your site from Aruba to WordPress.com.

Secure Shell (SSH) is a secure way for us to connect to your current host and copy your site safely. We use it to transfer a copy of your site’s content, media, plugins, themes, and database over an encrypted connection. Your existing site will stay online and unchanged during the migration, so visitors won’t notice any disruption until you’re ready to update your domain name to the newly-migrated site.

To find the SSH details for your site, take the following steps:

1. Visit your Aruba control panel.
2. In the section for the site you’d like to migrate, look for the SSH access information.
3. Copy the hostname or IP address here and paste it as your server address on WordPress.com:

4. Enter 22 in the Port box, unless a different number is provided by Aruba.
5. Click the “Verify server address” button.

In a few moments, we’ll validate if the details are correct for what we need to migrate a copy of your site to WordPress.com. If the details cannot be validated, please double check you have pasted the correct information or contact your host for support in obtaining the correct details.

Next, you’ll need to share your SSH details to grant WordPress.com secure access to your site to begin the migration:

1. In the “Share SSH access” section on WordPress.com, choose the SSH key authentication method.
2. Click the copy icon in the top right to copy the public key to your computer’s clipboard:

3. In your Aruba control panel, navigate to “Strumenti e Impostazioni“.
4. Next to “Chiavi SSH,” click on the “Gestisci” option.
5. Click on “Importa chiave” and paste in the key you copied form WordPress.com. This key must not contain any comments and must begin with the key type, for example, ssh-rsa.
6. Click on “Importa” to import the key.
7. Back on WordPress.com, click the Continue button.