Cloud Migrate

Cloud Migrate copies a complete WordPress site — database, media, plugins and themes — from one host to another. You install the plugin on both sites, generate a connection key on the site you are moving from, paste it into the site you are moving to, and press Start. The destination pulls everything across by itself.

There is no export file to download, nothing to upload by hand, and no need for FTP, SSH or database credentials.

Built for real hosting

Most migration failures come from host limits, not from the migration itself. Cloud Migrate is designed around them:

• Resumable, chunked transfers. Work is split into small slices, each one bounded by the host’s own memory_limit and max_execution_time. No single request needs more than a few seconds or a few MB.
• Adapts to what the host can take. It starts at the fastest pace both servers allow, halves it automatically after a failed request, and climbs back once conditions improve. Nothing to configure.
• Batched small-file transfers. Sites with thousands of small files are limited by request count, not bandwidth, so many files are fetched per request and several requests run in parallel.
• Recovers from out-of-memory conditions by reducing the transfer pace and continuing, instead of failing.
• Survives different table prefixes. If the two sites use different prefixes, tables are imported under their original names and wp-config.php is repointed at them (a backup is kept). Tables are never renamed, because WordPress stores the prefix inside user roles and capabilities.
• Handles newer database servers. Collations the destination does not recognise (for example MariaDB 11.4’s uca1400 family) are mapped to the closest supported equivalent.

Safe by default

• Your current administrator account is copied into the migrated database, so you can still sign in afterwards with the same username and password.
• The destination’s original database tables are left untouched until you choose to delete them, so the migration can be undone.
• Serialized data is unserialized, rewritten and re-serialized properly — URLs are also replaced in JSON-escaped and URL-encoded forms, which is what page builders such as Elementor store internally.
• Connection keys are signed with HMAC-SHA256, are valid for three hours, and can be revoked at any time.
• A built-in debug report shows the environment, host limits, transfer throughput and every logged request. It contains no passwords and no connection keys.

What is transferred

The database is always migrated. You choose whether to include media/uploads, plugins, themes and must-use plugins.

External services

This plugin communicates with the other WordPress site you are migrating to or from — a site whose address you supply yourself by pasting its connection key. No third-party service is contacted, and no data is sent anywhere else.

• What is sent: the connection key you generated, and requests for database rows and files.
• When: only while a migration is running, and only to the site the connection key was issued for.
• What is received: that site’s database contents and files.

No analytics, telemetry, tracking or external API calls of any kind are made. The plugin loads no remote scripts, fonts or images.