Hosting & Security
• 5 min read
• December 20, 2025
The Zero-Downtime Website Migration Guide: Moving from Shared to Dedicated NVMe
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Stephen Moorhouse
Founder & Principal Engineer at Smoortech
Migrating a live business website can feel terrifying if you are worried about email downtime, lost leads, or broken links.
Our Zero-Downtime Migration Process
- Pre-migration staging environment verification and database audit.
- TTL DNS lowering 24 hours prior to seamless switchover.
- SSL certificate pre-provisioning to eliminate browser warning flags.
- Post-migration 301 redirect mapping to preserve all existing Google SEO rankings.
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