How to Migrate to Kinsta With the Migrate Guru Plugin

If you use domain you will need to edit your hosts file or use the hosts cx tool to preview the site before having the migrated site go live..   If you use Kinsta domain you will need to add domain and search-replace the database before you'll be able to go live with the migrated site...   Once the connection is made Migrate Guru will migrate the site and display page.   Once you're confident that your migrated site is ready to go live all that's left to do is to make sure the site is loading at the domain and then point your domain at Kinsta..   On the other hand, if you opted to preview the site using Kinsta subdomain you will need to switch the site over to use the live domain..   you can switch the site to use the domain.   After confirming that the site loads using the live domain update your DNS and point your domain at Kinsta. Migrate Your SSL Certificate.   If your current site uses SSL certificate and loads over https you will need to install SSL here at Kinsta to keep the site loading over https.   you will need to wait on installing SSL until the site is loading from Kinsta.   Once SSL is installed you will need to run search-replace of the database to update every occurrence of URL in the database from http to https.   Read more