Move From IONOS To Liberation: Website & Email Migration
When you move from IONOS, a person handles this website migration for your WordPress site off IONOS hosting, tests everything before it goes live, and schedules the cutover around your schedule, not ours.
How the move from IONOS works
We handle each step so you can keep working.
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The short answer
Moving off IONOS means two things: the website (files, database, DNS) and, if you use it, IONOS 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 IONOS to Liberation, the goal is an IONOS migration you never have to think about twice: the same pages, the same design, the same functionality, just running on infrastructure you own instead of IONOS’ month-to-month or contract renewal pricing. A move from IONOS is handled by a person, not an automated plugin — every page is copied over, tested against the live IONOS site, and verified before your domain is switched.
Business owners who move from IONOS often ask how long the migration takes and whether anything will break in the process. In most cases a single-site IONOS migration wraps up within a few business days of approving the plan, and because your original IONOS site stays live and untouched throughout, there’s no window where visitors see a broken or half-finished site. If you’re weighing whether to move from IONOS now, the practical answer is that waiting only risks another renewal charge before the migration happens.
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.
What actually happens
We copy, we don't cut over yet
Your IONOS 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 IONOS 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 IONOS 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 IONOS
What moves, what doesn't have to
WordPress sites
IONOS email
Domain registration
- Shared Hosting from $7.99/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.
- Shared Hosting from $7.99/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: access IONOS, export your records, and switch DNS
We copy, we don't cut over yet
We test on our servers first
The migrated copy is checked against the live IONOS 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.
See the full IONOS vs. Liberation comparison → IONOS Alternative
Leaving IONOS: 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 IONOS 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 IONOS and simply point it at Liberation’s servers — or transfer it out later if you’d rather manage everything in one place. For reference, IONOS’ own domain transfer-out documentation covers that process if you ever want it, separate from this website migration.
Should I move before or after my IONOS plan renews?
Before, if you can, moving ahead of a renewal means you’re not paying for hosting you’re about to leave. Tell us your renewal date when you book a call and we’ll aim the cutover around it.
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 IONOS?
Yes. When you move from IONOS to Liberation, our team handles the entire 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.
Ready to leave IONOS?
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 IONOS hard
The friction here is contractual rather than technical. Plans are commonly sold on fixed terms with a low first-period rate and a higher renewal, and the domain is often included inside the hosting contract rather than held as a standalone registration. That bundling is what to untangle first, because cancelling the hosting can put an included domain at risk if you have not already transferred it out.
So the order of operations matters more here than almost anywhere. Transfer the domain out while the contract is still active and paid. Confirm it is live at the new registrar. Only then cancel. Doing it the other way round is how people end up arguing with a support queue about a domain that is already mid-deletion.
Check the renewal date and any notice period in your contract before picking a cutover date. If there is a cancellation window, you may want the technical migration to happen now and the cancellation to land on the contract boundary, so you are neither paying twice nor forfeiting a term you already bought. We will read those dates with you; it costs nothing and routinely saves a month’s fees.
The site itself is usually unremarkable — WordPress or static files with a MySQL database, and mailboxes that speak IMAP like anyone else’s. Mail needs care rather than cleverness: mailboxes are copied while the old server still accepts mail, so nothing falls into the gap, and the MX change only happens once that copy is verified.
How we handle it: we map your contract dates alongside the technical work, transfer the domain first, migrate the site and mailboxes and test them on a temporary address, then cut over DNS at a time you choose. 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 to hand and we will build the timeline backwards from it.
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