Site Flippers - The Transfer?

[GoGetta]

Hi Warriors,

I am just looking for a bit of info from the site flippers amongst us!

I have a hosted blog as an addon domain on my hostgator site, it isn't a reseller, just an addon domain.

Its a WP blog, is it easy to transfer if I sold it?

Thanks in advance,

GoGetta

[Sumit Menon]

Well, I'm doing something similar. I'm planning to push the domain to the buyer's account and pack the files in zip format and send it to him. Maybe I'll provide free installation on his account too.

No way I'm gonna give up my hosting!

Sumit.

[gskesavan]

Offer 30 days free hosting to the buyer. Within the period which he can transfer all the files, dbases and other necessities.

That's how I usually do it.

[VegasGreg]

It is pretty simple to do. I offer to do it for all my buyers if they need it.

--Just make a backup of your WP database (1 click in your host's cpanel).
--Download a backup copy of your WP-Content folder.
--Download a backup of any other special folders like 'Images' if you made any outside of WP.


Then here are the instructions to pass on to your buyer.

1)Domain name – Once I transfer the domain name to your Godaddy account, you will need to login to your Godday account and accept the transfer. Once that is final, you will need to pull up 'My Domains' and select the New domain name.
From there You will need to click the DNS (Set Name Servers) to edit. There you will enter your own hosting Name Servers based on your Host settings. The settings for the domain will originally have my info: 2 DNS settings: NS1.orighost.COM and NS2.orighost.COM. You will just need to replace those 2 settings with your 2 Host settings and save/update the change.

It will sometimes take 2-3 hours (or more) for that update to take place, but typically 20-30 minutes. You can pull up the site and keep refreshing the page every so often to see when the change has taken affect. The site will disappear when it is on your servers and you should get a "Page Not Found" type page.

2)Now go into your Host account and add-on the domain name newdomain.com.

3)In your Host Admin Panel (cPanel) click on the Fantastico De Luxe button. Click Wordpress in the left column. Click install new version on this domain name and proceed to install Wordpress. When finished, remember the MySql database name given, if you have other Wordpress files installed on your host.

4)Next, go back to the Host cPanel an click on the 'File Manager' button. Pull up this domain and look for the files already on the site. You will see a few folders at the top called wp-admin, wp-content and wpincludes.

These are Wordpress folders. Upload the zipped folders included in my email entitled 'images' and 'wp-content' to the server. Then select the zipped 'images' folder and click the 'extract' button. Then select the zipped 'wp-content' folder and extract that.

It should over-write the needed files in the wp-content folder already there. If it asks if you want to overwrite the files, say yes.

5)Now, go back to the cPanel home page and click the phpMyAdmin button. If your cPanel doesn't have a phpMyAdmin button, click on the Mysql Databases button and go to the very bottom of that page and there should be a small link that says phpMyAdmin. Once there, on the left menu colum you should see the Wordpress database listed (named from the WP install above). It may look something like newdomain_wrdp1.

Click on it. When that page loads, you will see some tabs across the top of the page. Click on the "Import" tab.
Click the "Browse" button and search your computer for the file 'wrdp1.sql.gz' which was in the email package I sent. Then click the "GO" button.

6)Everything should now be installed. If you go back to the domain name you should see the site back in action (Refresh the page). Sometimes you will see a Wordpress message the first time asking you to update/migrate the database. If you get that message, just click the yes/ok button and let it do it's thing. The site should now
appear as normal on your own server.

Additional notes: The WP-Admin login will be the same user name and password that you initially set up for the site. The new owner may have to go to the Permalinks settings and update/save the page again to make all the links work. If using the Google sitemap plugin, so into it's setting and rebuild the sitemap.

That's it!

[GoGetta]

Greg!

Awesome!

GoGetta