Move From Bluehost To Liberation
When you move from Bluehost, a real person handles this website migration and mailbox transfer, tested before anything goes live — not a DIY cPanel backup you run yourself.
How the move from Bluehost works
We handle each step so you can keep working.
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The short answer
Moving off Bluehost means two things: the website (files, database, DNS) and, if you use it, Bluehost email (mailboxes, contacts, calendar). Both move as part of one free migration, handled by a person on our team rather than a self-service import tool.
When you move from Bluehost to Liberation, the goal is a Bluehost migration you never have to think about twice: the same pages, the same design, the same functionality, just running on infrastructure that isn’t tied to Bluehost’s renewal pricing or upsell-heavy checkout flow. Business owners who move from Bluehost often ask how long the Bluehost migration takes and whether anything will break — in most cases a single-site Bluehost migration wraps up within a few business days, and because your original Bluehost site stays live and untouched throughout, there’s no window where your business is offline.
Most single-site migrations complete within a few business days of you approving the plan, with a scheduled cutover window so there’s no unexpected downtime.
Larger sites with more content or custom functionality can take a bit longer, but every Bluehost migration follows the same structured process: a full inventory of the Bluehost site, a rebuild on Liberation’s servers, a side-by-side check against the original, and then a DNS cutover scheduled for a low-traffic window you choose. Because the goal is a Bluehost migration with zero surprises, we don’t rush the testing phase even on simple sites — every form submission, every plugin, and every page template gets verified before the move from Bluehost is considered finished.
What actually happens
We copy, we don't cut over yet
Your Bluehost site stays live and untouched while we build the copy on Liberation’s servers.
We test on our servers first
The migrated copy is checked against the live Bluehost site — pages, forms, plugins, email — before anything is pointed at it.
We schedule the cutover with you
DNS changes happen at a time you choose, and we monitor for propagation issues after the switch.
You keep your domain name and, if you’re moving Bluehost email too, your existing addresses — nothing changes for the people emailing you or visiting your site.
- Free migration no setup fee, no migration fee, no surprise line on the first invoice.
- No downtime cutover DNS changes are scheduled and monitored, not left to chance.
- U.S.-owned infrastructure and support, not outsourced overseas.
Why teams leave Bluehost
The most common reasons: renewal price jumps after the first term, upsells inside the checkout flow, and hosting performance that doesn’t scale well once traffic grows. See the full price comparison on our Bluehost Alternative page if that’s what’s driving the move.
What moves, what doesn't have to
WordPress sites
Files, database, plugins and themes move as-is; we flag anything incompatible with our servers before the cutover, not after.
Bluehost email
Mailboxes, contacts and calendar entries move to Liberation Email or Hub for Teams, your choice.
Domain registration
You can keep your domain registered at Bluehost and just point it at us, or transfer registration too — either works.
- WordPress hosting from $35/month.
- Liberation Email $1.95/user/month.
- Free migration included with any plan switch.
Priced the way a business buys
Starting prices, billed monthly. Migration itself is free regardless of which plan you choose.
- WordPress hosting from $35/month.
- Liberation Email $1.95/user/month.
- Hub for Teams $7.49/user/month.
What It Costs
Starting prices, billed monthly unless noted. Anything larger gets a written quote.
Step-by-step: find your Bluehost DNS records and switch them to Liberation
We copy, we don't cut over yet
- Log in to your Bluehost account, go to Hosting → My Plans, then click the cPanel button on your plan.
- In cPanel, scroll to the Domains section and open Zone Editor.
- Select your domain and click Manage to see your current DNS records — including MX records, if Bluehost also handles your email. Worth noting these down before anything changes.
- Use the Filter box to find A, MX and CNAME records quickly.
- Once your new site and mailboxes are built and tested on Liberation, we send you the new nameservers or specific records to enter — Bluehost’s own nameserver-change screen is under your domain’s Nameservers tab in the account portal.
- Save and confirm. Changes typically show within a few hours and can take up to 48 hours to fully propagate; we keep both old and new mail flowing during that window.
We test on our servers first
The migrated copy is checked against the live Bluehost site — pages, forms, plugins, email — before anything is pointed at it.
We schedule the cutover with you
DNS changes happen at a time you choose, and we monitor for propagation issues after the switch.
You keep your domain name and, if you’re moving Bluehost email too, your existing addresses — nothing changes for the people emailing you or visiting your site.
Leaving Bluehost: your export steps
What the vendor documents for getting your data out, in order.
Common questions
Will my site go down during the move?
No — your Bluehost site stays live while we build and test the copy, and the DNS cutover is scheduled and monitored.
Do I have to move my domain registration too?
No. You can keep your domain registered at Bluehost and simply point it at Liberation’s servers.
What if I use Bluehost's website builder, not WordPress?
Tell us what you’re running when you book a call — site-builder migrations are handled case by case since Bluehost’s own Website Builder help documentation doesn’t offer a standard export format. We move Bluehost website builder sites by rebuilding them in WordPress, not copying files.
Is the migration really free?
Yes, for a standard site and mailbox migration, regardless of which plan you choose.
Do I need technical skills to move from Bluehost?
Yes. When you move from Bluehost to Liberation, our team handles the entire Bluehost migration for you — you don’t need any technical experience, and your current site stays live and untouched until the new one is tested and ready to go.
What happens to my Bluehost email during the migration?
Your Bluehost email moves right alongside the site as part of the same Bluehost migration. Mailboxes, contacts, and calendar entries are copied over to Liberation, and we schedule the mail-server cutover for the same low-traffic window as the website switch, so you don’t lose incoming messages during the move from Bluehost.
Ready to leave Bluehost?
Book a call and tell us what you’re running — we’ll give you a migration timeline and a written quote, no obligation.
What actually makes leaving Bluehost hard
The account is one bucket. A long-running Bluehost account is typically a single control panel holding a primary domain and a stack of addon domains — the real site, something built for a friend’s business, a staging copy from 2019, a subdomain somebody used once. Working out which of those still matter, and which belong to a different legal entity entirely, is the actual work. The file copy is trivial by comparison.
Then the renewal price. The published rate is an introductory rate for the first term and the renewal is materially higher, which is how most people find out: a charge lands, and they migrate in a hurry. That is the worst possible time to do it. Check what you are actually renewing at, then move at your own pace rather than in the week before a billing date.
Email is the real risk. Mailboxes on shared hosting are frequently the only copy of that mail — no desktop archive, no second device, nothing synced elsewhere. Copying them before anything changes is not optional, and it has to happen while the old server is still accepting mail so that messages arriving mid-migration are not quietly lost.
After that come the undocumented bits: cron jobs somebody set up years ago, an .htaccess file with a decade of redirects in it, a PHP version the site silently depends on, a certificate issued through the host. None of that shows up in a simple backup-and-restore, and it is exactly what makes a “finished” migration look broken a week later. We read those files rather than assume them.
How we handle it: we inventory every domain and mailbox in the account and ask you which still matter, copy the mail while the old server is live, rebuild redirects and scheduled tasks explicitly, and test on a temporary address before DNS moves. Website Migration is included with hosting, email and Hub plans. If you are not on a plan, or you want a one-off move, it is $250. Book a call with your renewal date and we will plan around it rather than against it.
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