# Website Migration in Mansfield > Migrations go wrong in three ways: downtime, lost email, and lost rankings. All three are avoidable, and all three happen constantly. **Provider:** Web Design Mansfield (a dijitul company) **Location:** The Bungalow, 11 St John Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire NG18 1QJ **Phone:** 01623 272050 **Email:** info@web-design-mansfield.co.uk **Price:** From £95, excluding VAT **Canonical URL:** https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/website-migration/ --- Moving a website sounds like a file transfer and is not. The files are the easy part. The risk is in DNS, email and URLs. Change the DNS carelessly and email stops for a day, which for most businesses is far more disruptive than the website being down. Change platform without mapping redirects and you throw away years of accumulated search rankings. We do it in a fixed order, test before switching anything, and keep the old site running until the new one is confirmed working. ## What you get ### Built and tested before anything switches The site runs on the new host, checked properly, before DNS changes. The switchover is then a formality rather than an experiment. ### Email handled first, carefully Mailboxes and records moved and verified before anything else. This is where migrations most often cause real business disruption. ### A complete redirect map Every old URL to its closest equivalent, where the platform is changing. Not everything to the homepage, which loses the value entirely. ### DNS with a lowered TTL first Dropped in advance so the switch propagates in minutes rather than up to 48 hours. A small step that removes most of the downtime risk. ### The old site kept running Left in place until the new one is confirmed. If anything is wrong, we point back and fix it with no pressure. ### Monitored afterwards Search Console watched for four weeks for crawl errors, broken redirects and ranking movement. ## Why people move, and whether they should The usual reasons are legitimate: hosting that is too slow, a host that will not answer the phone, a bill that has crept up, or an agency relationship that has ended. The one we would push back on is moving purely on price. Saving £8 a month on hosting is not worth it if the new host is oversold and your site becomes slower — you will lose more in conversions than you save. We will say so. ## Moving onto our hosting If you are moving to us, migration is free. Files, database, email, DNS and SSL, done in a working day for most sites, with no downtime you or your customers would notice. We do not charge for it because it would be a strange thing to charge for. You are already paying us monthly. ## What affects the price Starting price: From £95 (excluding VAT). - Whether it is a straight host move or a platform change - Site size and whether a database is involved - Whether email is moving too, which is usually the riskiest part - How many URLs need redirect mapping ## Local context — Mansfield A recurring local situation: the business that has lost contact with whoever built the site, does not know who hosts it, and has an invoice from 2019 as their only clue. That is a migration too, and it starts with detective work rather than file transfer. We do that fairly regularly. Bring us whatever you have and we will work out where everything actually lives. ## Also known as move website to new host Mansfield, website transfer Mansfield, change web host Mansfield, platform migration Mansfield, move website without losing rankings. ## Frequently asked questions ### Will my website go down during migration? Not if it is done properly. The new site is live and tested before DNS changes, and TTLs are lowered in advance so the switch takes minutes. Most migrations have no visible downtime at all. ### Will I lose my Google rankings? A straight host move should have no ranking effect whatsoever — the URLs do not change. A platform change needs a full redirect map, and with one done properly you may see a brief wobble and then recovery. ### What about my email? This is the riskiest part and we handle it first. Mailboxes moved and verified before the switch, and SPF, DKIM and DMARC checked afterwards so mail still reaches the inbox. ### Do I need to tell my current host? Not to migrate — we can take a copy without their involvement in most cases. You will want to cancel afterwards, but only once the new setup is confirmed working. ## Related services - [Web Hosting in Mansfield](https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/web-hosting/): UK servers, daily backups, and an 01623 number instead of a support ticket. - [Website Redesign in Mansfield](https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/website-redesign/): Modernise what you have without losing the traffic you already earned. - [Technical SEO in Mansfield](https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/technical-seo/): The unglamorous foundations that decide whether any other SEO work can pay off. - [Website Maintenance in Mansfield](https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/website-maintenance/): Updates, backups, monitoring and a real person to ring when something breaks. - [Business Email Setup in Mansfield](https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/business-email/): Email on your own domain, configured so it does not land in spam. - [Web Design in Mansfield](https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/web-design/): Websites that load fast, rank well and turn visitors into enquiries. --- Web Design Mansfield — Mansfield’s digital agency — websites, SEO and marketing that bring in work. The Bungalow, 11 St John Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire NG18 1QJ · 01623 272050 · info@web-design-mansfield.co.uk Trading since 2006. Google rating 5.0 from 35+ reviews.