Title: Setting up Optimized WordPress Hostgator
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Setting up Optimized WordPress Hostgator

 *  [tuyyui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuyyui/)
 * (@tuyyui)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-optimized-wordpress-hostgator/)
 * I need help setting up my website with optimized WordPress with hostgator. See
   I need for this to work for me. I have an fully made wordpress website on my 
   locally hosted website on my xxamp server. It’s completely made from the ground
   up ,but what I need right now is to import all of my completed files including
   the theme into my optimized hostgator server which is live right now. But here
   is my main problem I don’t know about hostgator it really seems like a bad service
   with my little experience with it customer service doesn’t really help you. But
   yeah please answer my question.

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 *  [Jason King](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasoncharlesstuartking/)
 * (@jasoncharlesstuartking)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-optimized-wordpress-hostgator/#post-6496916)
 * The usual way to do this is to:
 * 1) upload the files using FTP
 * 2) upload the data using phpMyAdmin
 * 3) maybe a bit of find and replace to make sure urls still work
 * My preference is to use the Backup Buddy plugin’s Import Buddy feature, which
   makes this a breeze. There will be other (including free) plugins you could use
   to make the process easier.
 * My experiences with Hostgator have mostly been positive, and setting up a WordPress
   site on it is quite “easy”.
 *  Thread Starter [tuyyui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuyyui/)
 * (@tuyyui)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-optimized-wordpress-hostgator/#post-6496929)
 * Problem with step 2 how to upload the data and should I use the hostgator made
   ftp account. Any videos on this maybe?
 *  [Jason King](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasoncharlesstuartking/)
 * (@jasoncharlesstuartking)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-optimized-wordpress-hostgator/#post-6496998)
 * Read [https://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients](https://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients)
   about using FTP. Yes you would use the FTP credentials supplied by Hostgator 
   for your account.
 * And here’s the basic installation info for WordPress – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress)
 * You would access phpMyAdmin by logging into Hostgator’s control panel. Once in,
   you would import data from your current WordPress install. Of course, you would
   first need to have exported the data from WordPress on your own computer. Which
   you could do by installing phpMyAdmin on your own computer, or perhaps it’s simpler
   to find a plugin that will export all your data instead.
 *  Thread Starter [tuyyui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuyyui/)
 * (@tuyyui)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-optimized-wordpress-hostgator/#post-6497078)
 * This is an optimized wordpress site there isn’t a cpanel.
 *  [Jason King](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasoncharlesstuartking/)
 * (@jasoncharlesstuartking)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-optimized-wordpress-hostgator/#post-6497085)
 * An “optimized” WordPress site on Hostgator without a cPanel? Not heard of that
   before, but I looked it up – [http://www.hostgator.com/managed-wordpress-hosting](http://www.hostgator.com/managed-wordpress-hosting)–
   and it seems to be a managed service that’s supposed to make life easier for 
   you. Right.
 * On that page, Hostgator say they have a “free migration service” and “all the
   help you need” so ask them for advice and see whether they can provide what they
   promise.
 *  [Hasibul Kabir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkhasib/)
 * (@hkhasib)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-optimized-wordpress-hostgator/#post-6497288)
 * I bought and canceled their wp hosting. Because, You can only use non www website.
   I planed to host [http://www.techfalls.com](http://www.techfalls.com). But after
   buying their service, it was not possible to make it www. So, it was like techfalls.
   com I contacted their support and they also told me that it is not possible to
   have www website, if i use optimized wordpress hosting. What a lol. Even, I did
   not get database access. Godaddy wp hosting also sucks. But they give you more
   control over your wordpress site. That’s why i’m currently on GD. But, planning
   to migrate to somewhere else.

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