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