Rebuilding and moving your website
If your site is on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or another site builder, I rebuild it properly as files you own and move it, with your domain and email, into accounts in your name. It ends up fast, with nothing to update and nothing locked in someone else's account.
What happens to the site you have
I do not keep old platforms running or make changes inside them. I move you off them.
- Rebuild it and move it
- For a site on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or any other site builder. It is rebuilt properly as files you own, and moved with the domain and the email into accounts in your name, in one job. Your pages and articles come across with it.
- Move it as it is
- Only for a site that is already plain code, such as hand written HTML. Nothing needs rebuilding, so it changes hands as it is, and the domain, the hosting and the email move into accounts in your name.
When a site is rebuilt, your old page addresses are kept where they can be and the rest redirect to their replacements, so the links you have built up over the years still work and you do not start again from nothing in search. A site moved as it is keeps the addresses it has.
Why rebuild rather than keep the old platform
What changes for you, shown on Stephen's site.
Nothing to update
There are no plugins and no platform underneath to patch or upgrade. The site is files, so there is nothing to keep updated.
No monthly builder fee
Hosting for a normal site costs nothing. After his move, Stephen's running costs came down to the price of his domain, about £10 a year.
Fast pages
Tested in September 2026 on Google's PageSpeed Insights, Stephen's home page scores 100 out of 100 on desktop and stays above 95 on mobile. Anyone can run the same test on stephentherapy.com.
Nothing in someone else's account
The domain, the hosting and the email are in your name, so you never need anyone's permission to move the site or to leave.
The parts people are actually worried about
The questions worth asking before anything moves.
Can you just fix my WordPress site?
Not inside WordPress. I do not make changes inside WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or any other site builder, and I do not keep them running for anyone. What I do instead is rebuild the site properly as files you own, with nothing to update, fix what needs fixing as part of that, and move it into accounts in your name.
Will my pages and articles come across?
Yes, they are rebuilt with the rest of the site, and the old addresses point at the new pages. How much work that is depends on what the site is built on, which is why I look before I quote. On Stephen's move, all 37 of his articles came across with their images and kept their original addresses.
I cannot log into my own domain
This is more common than you would think, and it is usually recoverable. The first thing to find out is who your domain is actually registered to and where it is pointing. That is something I can look up, and it tells us straight away whether this is a paperwork job with your registrar or something harder.
My developer will not help
For most of it, you do not need them to. The site is rebuilt somewhere you control, and the part that really does need their cooperation is usually just the domain.
My hosting is being switched off on a date
Tell me the date first, before anything else. A deadline changes the order I do things in, and it is the difference between a planned move and a scramble. I have done one of these against a hard cut off date and it went live a fortnight before the old hosting closed.
How long will it take?
A rebuild and a move together runs to the same two to three weeks as a Business build. A site that is already plain code and only needs moving is a few days of work, then a day or so for the domain change to settle down. Which one applies depends on what your site is built on, which the free look tells us.
What happens to my email?
Email is the part to plan first, because it usually runs through the same place as the domain. It gets set up and tested before the switch rather than after, so mail to your address keeps arriving while everything else moves underneath it.
Will I lose my Google rankings?
The redirects are what protect them. Every old address points at its replacement, so the pages that people already find keep working. I cannot promise particular rankings, and nobody honest can, but the pages you have earned do not get thrown away.
What it costs
Quoted per job, once I have looked at what you have got.
The packages on the prices page are for building a site from nothing, so they cannot price this honestly. A rebuild and move depends on how many pages there are, where your domain and email actually live, and whether the content can come across cleanly.
So the first step is that I look: who the domain is registered with, where its settings point, where the email goes, and what the site is built on. That costs you nothing. You get a plain answer and a fixed price in writing, and if the answer is that you should stay where you are, I will tell you that instead.
Once you accept a quote it works like everything else here: half books the start date, the rest is invoiced when it is ready to go live, and nothing is monthly. The domain, the hosting and the accounts end up in your name.
If what you are leaving is a monthly contract, there is a page on working out what those deals cost and what to check before you sign another one.
One I have done
A hypnotherapy practice in Stockport, rebuilt and moved against a deadline.
Stephen's site had been on WordPress for years, built and hosted by someone else, and that person was closing the hosting down at the end of the month. The domain, the settings that point it at the site, the email forwarding and the site itself all lived in an account he could not log into. A second domain pointed at it that nobody had touched in years.
The site was rebuilt as files he owns, with nothing to update and an editor so he changes his own fees, reviews, free guides and contact details. Both domains moved onto new hosting, with every setting copied across one by one. His 37 articles came across with their images and kept their original addresses. His email was set up and tested before the switch, so mail to his info address never stopped arriving, and old page addresses redirect to their replacements. It went live on the evening of 16 September, a fortnight before the old hosting closed.
He transferred dozens of pages and articles, created a straightforward editing system, protected my existing Google links, dealt with the technical side of the domain transfer and carefully explained everything in plain English.
Stephen James Stanton, Stephen Therapy. Read it where it was posted.Read Stephen's full review
Not sure where to start?
Send me your web address and I will tell you what you are dealing with.
You do not need to know any of the technical details. That is the point.
Not ready to move yet? Ask for a free website check instead. Within three working days you get a short report on the site you have now, with a score out of 100, what is working and the three things I would fix first. On a site builder, I would fix them as part of a rebuild.