---
title: "How to Move a Website to InMotion Hosting Shared Server"
description: "If your website is on a shared hosting provider using cPanel then it actually very easy to move your site to a new shared hosting provider that is also using cPanel. Follow these six steps:..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/how-to-move-a-website-to-inmotion-hosting-shared-server/
date: 2019-05-29
modified: 2023-12-12
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Website"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How to Move a Website to InMotion Hosting Shared Server

If your website is on a shared hosting provider using cPanel then it actually very easy to move your site to a new [shared hosting provider](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/shared-hosting) that is also using cPanel. Follow these six steps:

1. **Assessment** – review your website before you move it so that you include everything you want to move and remove anything that you don’t want to transfer.
2. **Complete cPanel Backup** – create a complete backup using the tools that come with cPanel. The complete backup is what’s used in the transfer.
3. **Provide access to the backup file** – to transfer to InMotion you will need to give access to the backup file or provide the actual file itself.
4. **Restore complete backup** – InMotion Hosting will restore the backup to an shared server.
5. **Transfer the domain** – make sure that the [domain name has been transferred](/support/domain-names/transfer-domain-name-to-inmotion-hosting/) or the name servers are pointing to the InMotion Hosting server.
6. **Test your site** – once the transfer is completed, check all the functionality of your website to make sure that the transfer worked with no problem.

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