Focus on your business. Stop maintaining the platform under your website.
I move sites to a setup that doesn't need constant monitoring and security updates.
01
Why owners move
From WordPress.
Security has to be watched. Plugin and core updates can conflict with each other, so that has to be watched too. And the site is slow.
From Webflow.
The price climbs as the site grows. Every change needs somebody who knows the Designer, so you either learn it yourself or you call someone each time. And a site can keep depending on Webflow's servers even after you leave, which a proper move removes.
From a hand-built HTML site.
Nobody can safely edit it any more. It usually sits on old shared hosting, and it is slow.
If it also does not work properly on a phone, that is a new layout rather than a move, and a new layout is a new website.
02
How the move runs
A free conversation first. The question I ask before anything else is whether you can log into your own site: the admin, the project, or the hosting account. Without that, a complete move is not possible, and I will tell you so rather than sell you one.
If one meeting settles it
You get a free written quote: the price by stage and an estimate in weeks.
If the site has to be read first
Or something has to be investigated before anyone can put a price on it. That is roadmapping, €350, plus VAT where applicable, credited against the first stage of the work.
Two stages, each paid in full before it starts.
The rebuild, then the switch.
The rebuild.
Your site goes up at a preview address of its own, where every old link is checked before anything changes for your visitors.
The switch.
One record in your domain's settings changes. The redirects go live, the site runs on your own hosting account, and you get everything handed over.
Thirty days to tell me what is wrong.
Anything that does not match what was agreed, I fix. After that, anything new or different is a change, and a change is quoted before I start it.
You close the old account yourself.
After the fix period, so going back is still possible while the new site settles. If that plan also carries your email, closing it deletes the mail, so we sort out where the mail lives before you touch it.
If you want a sense of the number before you write, what a project costs explains what drives it.
03
Who this is not for
- Online shops.
- Owners who want to carry on building pages in a page builder, because the whole point of the move is leaving that behind.
Anything else, ask. Most of what looks like a problem is settled in the first conversation.
04
One move I can show you
Faraday 3D, moved off Webflow onto a new setup and a new domain
The website of an architectural visualisation studio in Tartu. It began as a Webflow design that had already been converted once. I moved it again, onto a new domain.
It turned out to have 164 pages. Finding all of them was most of the work. The ones in the menu are easy; it is the ones nobody remembers, still getting visitors and still listed in search, that a move loses. Every one was found and checked as live before anything moved.
282 files were still being loaded from the old platform's servers. All of them were pulled down and stored with the site, so nothing breaks when the old account is closed. That is the thing that quietly breaks sites months after a move.
How the redirects are generated, how the build tests catch a bad one, and how the switch was checked from the outside are on its own page.
05
If this is the wrong page
Want a new look as well as a move? That is a new website, and it is priced differently.
Not sure the platform is what is actually wrong? The website check finds that out first.
Send me your site's address
Send me your site's address. I'll check whether it can move before you pay for anything.