Tell us where your site lives now. It arrives with its files, database and mailboxes, while today's site keeps serving every visitor.
We build your site here on an address of its own while the one you have today carries on exactly as it is. Your name moves here on the day you decide.
Zero downtime guaranteed.
Serving visitorsStanding byYour new site is built and waiting. Today's site is still serving every visitor.
The move starts the second you finish the wizard, and a live progress page shows each stage. Nothing goes live until you point your domain here.
Your files and databases copy across while your old site keeps serving every visitor.
Check every page on its own preview address before anything changes.
Point your domain here when you decide. Not before.
One click takes you back to your old host for seven days after going live.
Ask KoraSWYour site is being copied across in pieces. It stays live and unchanged the whole time.
This runs on our servers, not in your browser. You can close this tab and we will email you when your staging site is ready to review.
Your domain is already with us, so there is nothing for you to change. Press the button and we will point northbay.studio at your new site.
Your domain's DNS is with us, and its web address points at KapsuleHost. We can point it back for you.
A two-person workshop. Commissions open for spring.
The wizards are free on every hosting plan, and our team helps you move it, free. An engineer doing the whole move is US$150.00, one-off.
One of our engineers carries the move out end to end and supervises the switch-over, which is what people choose for a big or a delicate setup. You see the price before you agree to it, and the work is finished in one to two business days.
A person from our team makes first contact within 2 New Zealand business hours of your order.
Account credit for the paid time you will not use at your old host once you move to us. New customers on a yearly plan, up to half your first-year price.
Other hosts lure you in cheap, then hike it at renewal. We lock yours in for as long as you stay on the plan.
One site, and everything it needs to be online.
US$2.50/mo
US$30.00 billed yearly
Hostinger Premium: US$2.99/mo on a 48-month term, then US$10.99/mo at renewal.Hostinger, Premium plan: “Get 48 months for $143.52 (regular price $575.52). Renews at $10.99/mo.” hostinger.com/web-hosting, read 6 Oct 2026. www.hostinger.com/web-hosting
Renews at US$30.00/yr. Locked for as long as you stay.
A handful of sites, with staging for WordPress sites and more headroom.
US$7.00/mo
US$84.00 billed yearly
SiteGround GrowBig: US$4.99/mo prepaid for 12 months, then US$29.99/mo ex VAT at renewal.SiteGround, GrowBig plan (international page): “Renews at $29.99 /mo. Prepaid for 12 months. Ex. VAT” world.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm, read 6 Oct 2026. world.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm
Renews at US$84.00/yr. Locked for as long as you stay.
For a busy shop or an agency running client sites.
US$17.00/mo
US$204.00 billed yearly
hosting.com Pro Plan: US$3.79/mo on a 4-year term, then US$19.99/mo at renewal.hosting.com, Pro Plan: “For a 4-year term. Pay $181.93 today, then $19.99/mo on renewal.” hosting.com/hosting, captured 5 Oct 2026. hosting.com/hosting/
Renews at US$204.00/yr. Locked for as long as you stay.
Dedicated performance for high-traffic and enterprise workloads.
US$36.00/mo
US$432.00 billed yearly
No like-for-like plan to compare.
Choose Cloud PowerRenews at US$432.00/yr. Locked for as long as you stay.
The ten things people ask before they move a site, answered in full.
Ways To Reach UsNo. We build your site here on an address of its own while the one you have today carries on exactly as it is, and your domain goes on pointing where it points until you move it, on the day you decide. DNS changes take a while to reach everyone, and during that window some visitors still land on the old host, which is why you keep it running.
Every file on your site, the database behind it and the settings that make it look the way it does; your mailboxes, with every message and folder; and a certificate, issued here. Your domain name moves separately, when you choose.
The website and mailbox migration wizards are free on every hosting plan. A migration needs somewhere to land: a KapsuleHost plan with a free site slot. If you would rather not run the wizards yourself, let our team handle it: an assisted move, and that is free too. For a big or a delicate setup, one of our engineers can carry out the whole move for you instead, with a supervised switch-over, for US$150.00 one-off, a price you see and agree first. A person from our team makes first contact within 2 New Zealand business hours of your order, and the work is finished in one to two business days.
Most migrations finish in well under an hour, though larger sites, such as big media libraries or WooCommerce stores, can take a couple of hours. The move starts the second you finish the wizard, and a live progress page shows each stage. Nothing goes live until you point your domain here.
Not automatically. Hosted platforms such as Shopify, Squarespace and Wix do not provide the full-site export the wizard needs, so when it detects one it tells you it cannot continue automatically.
Very little. For a WordPress site you install a free plugin, which takes about a minute, and paste in the one-time token the wizard shows you. If you cannot install a plugin, you can give the wizard temporary FTP, SFTP or cPanel access and your database details instead. Kora sits beside you the whole way and answers as you go.
Yes. For seven days after your site goes live, one click takes you back to your old host, or shows exactly what to restore if your DNS is at your own registrar. Your old site stays exactly as it was at your old host, because a migration never changes it.
Your domain stays the same, and the migration rewrites your site's URLs for its new home as one of its steps. Before you switch, open the new site and read it end to end. One thing to check: KapsuleHost web hosting runs nginx, so .htaccess rules from your old host, including redirects, do nothing here; set up any redirects you rely on before you point your domain across.
Keep your old hosting for at least seven days after going live. Once it is cancelled there is no old site to go back to, and cancelling early is the one mistake in this process that cannot be undone.
The mailbox wizard brings every message and folder across while your team keeps reading and sending, and your mail keeps arriving where it does now until you press the switch. If you ever go back and that moves your nameservers, your email moves with them: new mail goes wherever your old DNS sends it, and mail that already arrived here stays in your KapsuleHost mailboxes.
