Buyer's Guide
Weighing up hosting with free migration
Written for switchers who know where they want to be but dread the moving day itself — the tests that matter, the trap to sidestep, and where we would honestly send you.
Straight answer first
If you read one paragraph only, the right pick is hosting where our team moves you in, usually inside 24 hours, and you sign the copy off before anything switches — moving house should never be the customer's job.
The reasoning, the tests and the trap to avoid all sit below — written for switchers who know where they want to be but dread the moving day itself, with none of the affiliate-table theatre this subject usually attracts.
Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 1 August 2026
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This guide is written for switchers who know where they want to be but dread the moving day itself. If that describes you, the decision has a right answer — it just is not the one the comparison-table trade is paid to hand out.
One market fact frames the whole thing: nothing keeps customers at a poor host like the fear of moving. That fear is exactly what a free, hands-on migration exists to dismantle, and why the shops worth using offer one.
How to weigh up the options
Hold every candidate against these, in this order:
People doing the move, rather than a tool you run yourself and hope about.
The whole shop moved across: files, databases, mailboxes, configuration.
A window to check the copy over before the domain is switched.
Zero-downtime sequencing as the ordinary method, not a paid upgrade on top.
What to leave on the shelf (and why it is everywhere)
Hosts whose 'free migration' turns out to be a plugin licence and a knowledge-base article with your name on it.
The pattern lasts because its cost lands later: at renewal, at migration, or at the worst possible point in your growth. The antidote is dull arithmetic — total cost across two or three years, with every 'extra' you would actually need added in.
The recommendation, and the reasoning behind it
Hosting where our team moves you in, usually inside 24 hours, and you sign the copy off before anything switches — moving house should never be the customer's job.
On our shelves that means the Pro plan — SSL, migration and mail included, a renewal price matching the order price, and an upgrade path so the choice never has to be made again from scratch.
Mailboxes on your own domain are part of the plan, never an add-on sold back to you at checkout.
The homework worth doing first
Run the same checks on us as on anybody else: message support before you pay and see who answers, hold the renewal price against the order price, read the refund terms end to end, and look the company up — ours is Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales, and the record is public.
The refund window covers the rest — move a real site across (the free migration makes that painless), live with it for a fortnight, and let daily use settle what no marketing page can.
What's in it for us, stated plainly
We are a host recommending hosting, and we say it plainly. No pretend neutrality, no league table paid for by referral fees. The trade is openness for trust, and it reads better besides.
Mailboxes on your own domain are part of the plan, never an add-on sold back to you at checkout.
- Tests you can run for yourself
- Renewal prices on the tag, not in a footnote
- The free move in makes trying us painless
- A refund policy with no small print
Why Hosting Seller
On every plan, as standard
Matched to this verdict
The Pro plan is this page's recommendation made concrete — one flat price, essentials included, upgradeable in place.
Support you can try first
Ask us something hard before you pay — how a host behaves pre-sale is the ceiling of what follows.
A company you can look up
Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales — a host with a public record you can read before trusting.
NVMe and LiteSpeed as standard
The performance kit other hosts reserve for premium tiers is simply how our plans are built.
A real ladder to climb
Shared, VPS and dedicated all under one roof — today's choice never boxes you in tomorrow.
A refund without a gauntlet
If it does not suit, leaving is a request rather than a negotiation — which is why we are content to be tested.
Price Tags Compared
Our figures beside the big names
Sign-up and renewal prices for GoDaddy, Hostinger and Namecheap, set next to ours — the second number most comparison charts leave off.
| Line item | Hosting SellerBest seller | GoDaddy | Hostinger | Namecheap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price / mo* | $2.09/mo | $5.99 | $2.99 | $1.88 |
| Price at renewal / mo | $2.09/mo | $11.99 | $10.99 | $4.29 |
| Entry plan renews at the same price | ||||
| SSL on every plan | ||||
| Site migration included | ||||
| NVMe storage on the entry plan | ||||
| Daily backups on the entry plan | ||||
| Live human support, 24/7 |
*Our figure is the cheapest plan we sell, on an annual term. The competitor figures are the lowest shared-hosting price each of them published in July 2026 — those introductory rates normally require signing up for 1–4 years and rise once that term ends. Check their own sites for what they charge today.
First Steps
From choosing to live
- 1
Write the requirement in one sentence
One honest sentence about the workload beats an afternoon of feature-table comparison, so write it before you go shopping.
- 2
Price the second year, not the first
Teaser rates are this market's favourite trick, so compare hosts on what year two costs and the field reorders itself on the spot.
- 3
Try it inside the refund window
A live trial with your own site answers what no review can, and the free migration plus the refund policy make that trial genuinely risk-free.
In the Box
Packed with every plan
- Webmail in the browser plus IMAP, POP and SMTP for your own client
- Site migration done for you by our staff, at no charge
- Real people on the counter, every hour of every day
- Upgrades apply to the account in place, with no move between plans
- A 99.9% uptime commitment, watched by monitoring day and night
- Staging copies so changes get tested before they go live
- A backup taken daily, with restores you run yourself
- A free SSL certificate on every plan, reissued before it lapses
- A 30-day money-back guarantee on every hosting plan
- Mailboxes that carry your own domain name
Across the Counter
The questions we get asked most
How does a move with no downtime at all actually work?
Your site is copied to us and checked over while the old host carries on serving visitors as normal. Only when you approve it does the DNS change, and traffic drifts across with both copies live throughout. Nobody outside sees a gap.
What do you need from me in order to move a site?
Access to the old hosting — cPanel or FTP details — and a ticket telling us to start. Mailboxes, databases and whatever oddities are buried in there are our problem. You look at the result and say when to switch.
What happens to my files if I leave?
The site and the files stay yours. Pull a full backup from the panel whenever you like, before or during cancellation. Domains remain registered in your name for the term you paid for and can move to any registrar once the standard 60-day window has passed.
What does round-the-clock support actually stretch to?
People at the counter at every hour, and a scope that takes in the practical work: mailbox setup, DNS records, WordPress trouble, restores. Not 'the server responds, ticket closed'. Ask us something hard before you order — the reply is a fair sample of what you would get afterwards.
What uptime do you commit to, and who is watching?
We commit to 99.9% uptime and watch it continuously. That figure is an operational target rather than a poster line, and the alerting behind it usually has an engineer on a problem before the first customer notices anything is wrong.
Which control panel comes with the account?
cPanel, which the whole trade already knows. That means every tutorial online matches what you see, your backups restore onto any cPanel host anywhere, and what you learn here stays useful for life. Plesk and DirectAdmin are stocked on specific plans for anyone who prefers them.
Can I set the PHP version myself?
Yes — PHP versions are chosen per site from the control panel, so an old application and a current one can sit side by side on the same account. Extensions and per-site settings live in the same screen, and none of it needs a support ticket.
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