{"id":9362,"date":"2026-04-01T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/?p=9362"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:56:32","slug":"move-website-within-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/move-website-within-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to move a website within Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4455931-how-to-migrate-a-website-to-hostinger\/\">migrate websites<\/a> from other providers to Hostinger, you may also need to move a website that is already hosted here. This is common when you have multiple plans and want to move a growing website to a more resourceful plan, to move a client&rsquo;s site, or when consolidating websites across multiple Hostinger accounts into one. This guide explains the different methods available based on your source and target destinations.<\/p><h1 id=\"h-move-to-a-different-hosting-plan-in-your-hostinger-account\">Move to a different hosting plan in your Hostinger account<\/h1><p>You can migrate a website where both the source and target hosting plans are accessible under your single login. The process to transfer a website from one hosting plan to another in your account varies depending on the website type and the target plan.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-web-and-cloud-hosting\">Web and cloud hosting<\/h2><p>If moving from any web or cloud hosting plan to another web or cloud hosting plan within your account, follow the guidance corresponding to the website type:<\/p><ul>\n<li><strong>WordPress<\/strong>: You can use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-migrate-an-internal-website-automatically-at-hostinger\/#h_c658802d75\">automatic migration<\/a> tool, <span data-path-to-node=\"3,0,1,0\"><span class=\"citation-34\">which is available as a paid service.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hostinger AI Builder (manual mode):<\/strong> Can only be moved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8591902-how-to-move-a-hostinger-builder-website-to-another-hosting-plan\/\">automatically<\/a> for a fee. Manual migration is not supported; instead, you must recreate your website on the new hosting plan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hostinger AI Builder (agentic mode)<\/strong>: While move is not supported, you can duplicate the website by clicking the options button (<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8942;<\/span>) on the <a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a> page of hPanel and selecting the new hosting plan. Next, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/3624731-how-to-delete-a-website-from-a-hosting-plan-in-hostinger\/\">remove<\/a> the old website and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10672797-hostinger-horizons-how-to-connect-a-domain\/\">connect the domain<\/a> to the new one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>PHP or HTML websites<\/strong>: There is no automatic migration for these sites; you must move them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-migrate-an-internal-website-manually-at-hostinger\/\">manually<\/a> using the backup and restore functions.<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-agency-hosting\">Agency hosting<\/h2><p>If moving to an Agency plan, use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-clone-a-wordpress-website-to-agency-hosting-plan\/\">Clone website<\/a> feature for WordPress and Hostinger AI Builder. PHP or HTML websites must be moved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-migrate-an-internal-website-manually-at-hostinger\/\">manually<\/a> using backups.<\/p><h1 id=\"h-move-a-website-to-another-hostinger-user\">Move a website to another Hostinger user<\/h1><p>Follow these steps if the target hosting plan belongs to a different Hostinger customer account.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-web-and-cloud-hosting-1\">Web and cloud hosting<\/h2><p>If both accounts use standard web or cloud hosting:<\/p><ul>\n<li><strong>WordPress<\/strong>: Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/9214881-how-to-transfer-website-ownership-in-hostinger\/\">Website ownership transfer feature<\/a>. Transfer of ownership is free when initiated from Cloud plans.<\/li>\n<li><strong>PHP or HTML websites<\/strong>: Move the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-migrate-an-internal-website-manually-at-hostinger\/\">manually<\/a> by downloading a backup from the source account and uploading it to the target account &mdash; see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5981410-how-to-duplicate-a-custom-website-at-hostinger\/\">how to duplicate a custom website<\/a> for the steps specifically.<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-agency-hosting-plans\">Agency hosting plans<\/h2><p>When moving between Agency plans or between a web or cloud plan and an Agency plan in different accounts, you must move WordPress or PHP\/HTML websites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-migrate-an-internal-website-manually-at-hostinger\/\">manually<\/a> using backups.<\/p><p><strong> NOTES<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li>Due to technical architecture, websites created with Hostinger AI Builder cannot be moved to a different user account.<\/li>\n<li>As an alternative to automatic migration or ownership transfer for WordPress websites, you can move them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-migrate-an-internal-website-manually-at-hostinger\/\">manually<\/a>&nbsp;for free.<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-move-from-vps-to-web-or-cloud-hosting\">Move from VPS to web or cloud hosting<\/h2><p>If you&rsquo;re moving a website from a VPS plan to a web or cloud hosting plan within your account, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10091923-how-to-migrate-your-website-from-vps-to-web-hosting-on-hostinger\/\">how to migrate your website from VPS to web hosting<\/a> for the dedicated process.<\/p><p>Once you have moved your website files and databases, remember to update your domain&rsquo;s DNS records to point to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4407303-where-to-find-the-a-record-of-your-hosting-plan-at-hostinger\/\">IP address<\/a> of your new hosting plan. This ensures your visitors can reach the site at its new location. If needed, you can also migrate your emails as a separate process.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">If you want to verify everything works before switching your live domain over, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-switch-to-a-temporary-domain-in-hpanel\/\">switch to a temporary domain in hPanel first<\/a>. This ensures your visitors can reach the site at its new location. If needed, you can also migrate your emails as a separate process.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transfer, copy, or migrate your website between different Hostinger hosting plans or user accounts using automatic and manual methods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/move-website-within-hostinger","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9362"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16482,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362\/revisions\/16482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}