How much effort is involved in moving a WordPress site to a private server? [on hold]

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Published on 2013-10-20T02:29:41Z Indexed on 2013/10/20 4:14 UTC
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I work in tech, but am on the business side. I have a WordPress site that I would like to move to a personal server and associate with a new domain name. I already have a server (actually, a friend is letting me use his) and the domain name.

A friend-of-a-friend, who claims to be an IT pro, has agreed to help, but now is asking for what feels like a lot of money for what he says is a pretty time-intensive job. This doesn't sound right to me, so I thought I would ask here:

  • Would it take months or even days to move the content, and why would it have to be moved in stages? The blog currently uses a basic template and has about 1000 posts.

  • How much effort is really involved in moving a WordPress site from one server to another? Can anyone explain the process?

  • Would it just make more sense to point the domain name at the existing WordPress blog, and pay the nominal yearly fee?

I appreciate any answers you can provide.

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