KapsuleHost Migrator

KapsuleHost Migrator moves a WordPress site in one of two ways.

Move to KapsuleHost. Paste the one-time token from your KapsuleHost panel and the plugin sends your files and database straight to KapsuleHost. Your current site stays live and unchanged the whole time.

Download a copy. Package your files and database into archives you can download and take anywhere. No KapsuleHost account is needed.

How a move to KapsuleHost works

1. In your KapsuleHost panel, open Websites, then Migrate a Site, and choose the plugin option.
2. Copy the one-time migration token the panel gives you.
3. Install and activate this plugin on the site you are moving.
4. Go to KapsuleHost Migrate in your admin menu, paste the token and click Start the Move.

The plugin counts your files, packs them in pieces so large sites move without running out of memory, copies your database and sends it all to KapsuleHost. A live meter shows what has actually been sent. If the connection drops, it picks up from the last piece that arrived.

How a download works

1. Install and activate the plugin. No account is needed.
2. Go to KapsuleHost Migrate in your admin menu.
3. Open the Download a Copy tab and click Package This Site. Packaging runs in the background.
4. Download your files and database archives when they are ready.

Features

• Works with any WordPress host, with no SSH or FTP details needed.
• Moves sites of several gigabytes in pieces, within normal PHP memory limits.
• The download option works without a KapsuleHost account.
• A one-time token authorises the move, so no passwords are stored or shared.
• wp-config.php is left out of every package.
• Temporary files are removed when a move ends, and the token is deleted once KapsuleHost reports the move finished.

Security

• Your migration token works once and expires after 2 hours.
• Everything is sent over an encrypted connection (HTTPS).
• The plugin never changes your content. It reads your files and database and writes only its own settings and temporary files, in a private, randomly named folder that is removed when the move ends.
• wp-config.php and wp-config-sample.php are never included in a package.
• The token is never sent to your browser. It stays on this server and is deleted when KapsuleHost reports the move finished, when the move stops, when you start over, or when the plugin is removed.

External Services

This plugin can send your site to KapsuleHost, a web hosting service operated by Kapsule Group
Limited (New Zealand). It is not required in order to use the plugin: the export path packages your
site into files you download yourself and contacts nothing.

When a connection is made. Only after you start a migration in your KapsuleHost panel and paste
the one-time token it gives you into this plugin, and only while that migration is running. Nothing
is sent when the plugin is merely installed or activated, and nothing is sent if you only use the
export path.

What is sent. Your site’s files and its database, uploaded in pieces to
kpanel.kapsulehost.com, because that is the migration. Alongside them the plugin sends your site
address, the token, a count of files and bytes so the progress bar can be honest, and the reason if
a piece fails so the move can be resumed rather than restarted. Your WordPress administrator
password is never sent: the token authorises the transfer, not your login.

What is received. The state of your migration (which step, what percentage, any error), so this
screen can report what is actually happening rather than guessing, and which pieces KapsuleHost
already holds, so a resumed move carries on from there. Both are asked by this server, never by your
browser, and the token is never sent to your browser.

Shop orders during the switch-over (WooCommerce only, only if you agree). After your site has
been copied, if your site is a WooCommerce shop and your KapsuleHost panel offers it, the plugin asks
you on its screen whether to keep sending new orders to KapsuleHost. Nothing is sent unless you
choose Yes. If you do, the plugin sends kpanel.kapsulehost.com the orders and refunds (with their
items, addresses and notes), stock levels, and customer accounts created here since the copy,
including those customers’ password hashes so they can sign in on the new site (never their login
sessions, application passwords, password-reset keys or other secret keys). It sends this every 15
minutes and shortly after an order changes, in the background (never during a shopper’s checkout),
until KapsuleHost reports the switch-over finished, and stops when you start over or remove the
plugin. KapsuleHost adds them to your new site.

Update checks. The copy of this plugin distributed from WordPress.org uses WordPress.org’s own
update system and makes no update requests to KapsuleHost. The copy downloaded directly from
kapsulehost.com asks kpanel.kapsulehost.com for the current version at most once every six hours.

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