It shouldn’t be your host that installs it – it is you 🙂
Have backups of your old install, which means 2 (two) things!!!
1. WP files
2. Database
The database is the MOST important, everything is in there: your content (posts, pages, comments AND settings!)
From the files, nothing really is important – except your customized theme files (if any) and the wp-config.
However, even the wp-config has to be changed to reflect the info referring to your new database.
I assume the 4 pieces of info needed in the wp-config file (db name, db user, pw, host) will NOT be the same as on the old host.
Thread Starter
bg2326
(@bg2326)
Thanks for your reply. My previous hosting company came with WP already installed on the site. I have installed it at the new location. And as expected, my database content was gone. Good thing it was backed up 🙂
When you make a new install – it has an empty database. Nothing is gone.
AFTER that you restore the backed up db content.
If you proceed the other way around (1. restore; 2. install) of course, it will over-write the existing database 🙂
Common sense…
Thread Starter
bg2326
(@bg2326)
Sorry, I should have said “empty” instead of “gone”. Thanks again for your help.
when transferring to a new host (but same domain), will my site be unavailable? and if so, for how long?
probably. depends on how fast your domain name propagates.
