How Kinsta Migrates Dynamic WordPress Sites (Ecommerce, Community)

Sites that are updated membership, and community sites, must be placed into maintenance mode during migration to prevent data loss.   This means that your site will remain maintenance mode until you update DNS and the site goes live at Kinsta..   test site functionality, and then update your DNS records to point the domain at Kinsta..   your website's visitors will arrive at the site hosted at Kinsta and be able to continue placing orders, registering users, and publishing content..   You can use this information to get sense for how long your site will need to be maintenance mode, above do mean that we are unable to predict how long your specific site will need to be maintenance mode..   Schedule the migration for time when you'll be available to start reviewing the site the moment you notification that the migration is complete..   Watch for our Engineers message notifying you that the migration is complete. 12 to 24 hours reduce TTL value associated with your domain to 5 minutes to speed up DNS propagation.   Review our knowledge base article on how to preview site on our infrastructure so that you understand the technical steps required to review the site after the migration..   Review our knowledge base article on how to point your domain at Kinsta so that you are prepared to do so as soon as you've confirmed that the migrated site is ready to go live...   If this process will not work for your website please get in touch with our support team using the chat system MyKinsta when you're ready to request your migration so that we can discuss other possible options...   Read more