Buying Advice
How to choose: hosting with free migration
Written for switchers who know what they want but dread the move itself — the criteria that matter, the trap to avoid, and where we'd honestly point you.
The short answer
If you only read one paragraph: the right pick is hosting where the team moves you in, typically within 24 hours, and you approve the copy before the switch — moving shouldn't be the customer's job.
The reasoning, the criteria and the trap to avoid are below — written for switchers who know what they want but dread the move itself, without the affiliate-table theatre this topic usually attracts.
Free
Site migration
24/7
Real-person support
Daily
Automatic backups
$0
Setup fees
This guide is written for switchers who know what they want but dread the move itself. If that's you, the decision has a right answer — it just isn't the one the comparison-table industry is paid to give you.
One market fact frames everything here: migration dread is the incumbent host's best retention tool — which is precisely why competent hosts weaponise free, handled migrations against it.
How to judge the options
Judge every candidate against these, in order:
Humans performing the migration, not a tool you run and pray over.
Everything included: files, databases, email accounts, configuration.
A verification window before DNS cuts over.
Zero-downtime sequencing as the default, not a premium.
What to avoid (and why it's everywhere)
Hosts whose 'free migration' is a plugin licence and a knowledge-base article.
The pattern survives because its cost lands later — at renewal, at migration, or at the worst possible moment of growth. The antidote is boring arithmetic: total cost over two or three years, with every 'extra' you'd actually need included.
Our recommendation, and the reasoning
Hosting where the team moves you in, typically within 24 hours, and you approve the copy before the switch — moving shouldn't be the customer's job.
On our platform that maps to the Pro plan — with free SSL, migration and email included, flat renewals, and an upgrade path that means the choice never has to be re-made from scratch.
Business email on your own domain is included, not sold back as an add-on.
The due-diligence checklist
Run the same tests on us as on anyone: message support before paying and see who answers, compare the renewal price to the signup price, read the refund terms end to end, and look the company up — ours is Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales, and the record is public.
The refund window then covers the rest — move a real site (the free migration makes that painless), live with it for a fortnight, and let the daily experience make the decision the marketing pages can't.
The incentive behind this guide
We're a host recommending hosting, and we say so plainly — no fake neutrality, no referral-fee league table. The trade is transparency for trust, and we think it reads better too.
Business email on your own domain is included, not sold back as an add-on.
- Criteria you can test yourself
- Renewal prices printed, not footnoted
- Free migration makes trials painless
- A refund policy without traps
Why HostingAlly
What you get with every plan
Verifiable company
Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales — a host you can look up before you trust.
A real upgrade ladder
Shared to VPS to dedicated under one roof — the choice you make today never boxes you in.
NVMe + LiteSpeed standard
The performance stack that premium tiers elsewhere charge for is simply how our plans ship.
Support you can pre-test
Ask us something hard before you pay — pre-sales behaviour is the ceiling of post-sales support.
The essentials included
SSL, migration, backups and email ship with every plan instead of appearing at checkout as extras.
A refund policy without a gauntlet
If it doesn't fit, leaving is a request — which is exactly why we're comfortable being tested.
Getting Started
How to get going
- 1
Define the requirement in one sentence
One honest sentence about the workload beats an afternoon of feature-table comparison — write it before shopping.
- 2
Price year two, not year one
Teaser rates are this market's favourite trick — compare hosts on what year two costs and the field reorders itself instantly.
- 3
Test inside the refund window
A live trial with your actual site answers what no review can — and our free migration plus refund policy make the trial genuinely risk-free.
Included
What's covered on our plans
- Per-site PHP version selection
- Free SSL certificate on every plan, renewed automatically
- LiteSpeed server-level caching
- DDoS protection at the network level
- One-click installer for WordPress and 400+ apps
- 99.9% uptime commitment, monitored around the clock
- NVMe SSD storage as standard
- Free website migration handled by our team
- cPanel — the industry-standard control panel
- 24/7 support from real people
FAQ
Your questions, answered
How does a zero-downtime migration actually work?
Your site is copied and verified at the new host while the old one keeps serving. Only when you approve does DNS switch — visitors drift to the new copy with both ends live throughout.
What do you need from me to migrate my site?
Access to the old hosting (cPanel or FTP details) and a support ticket saying go. Email accounts, databases and quirks are our problem — you review the result and approve the switch.
Do you include email with hosting?
Yes — mailboxes on your own domain come with every hosting plan, with webmail, IMAP/POP/SMTP access and spam filtering. Standalone email hosting also exists for domains whose websites live elsewhere.
Will you move my existing website for free?
Yes — open a ticket with your current host's access details and we handle the whole move: files, databases, email and configuration, verified by you before DNS switches. The old site keeps serving until the new copy takes over, so visitors never see a gap.
Where is your company based?
HostingAlly is a trading name of Bohzo Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales — a real, verifiable business with published terms under English law, which is worth checking about any host before you hand them your domain.
What happens if I outgrow my plan?
You upgrade in place — plan changes apply from your client area without migrations or downtime, and our range runs from small shared plans through VPS to dedicated servers, so growth is an account change rather than a new-host project.
Can I host more than one website on a plan?
On the Pro tier and above, yes — multiple sites with their own domains, email and SSL under one account. If the extra sites belong to clients rather than you, reseller hosting gives each one proper isolation instead.
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