Moving ALLOWLIST off GoDaddy without anybody noticing.
ALLOWLIST keep a curated shortlist of security-focused companies, and we were the only hosting company on it. So when their WordPress site had to come off GoDaddy, their own audience had already set the bar. It needed to be secure, quick, and moved without any drama.
We rebuilt and tested the site on our platform, hardened it properly, and switched the DNS with nobody offline. Here's how it went.
- GoDaddy to Codo Digital, WordPress to WordPress
- No downtime, because we tested it here before switching
- Security hardened with Content-Security-Policy and HSTS
What they needed
ALLOWLIST sit on a curated list of security-conscious businesses, so their hosting had to live up to the brand it carried. A live WordPress site on GoDaddy needed moving somewhere safer and quicker, with a real person answering the phone, and without a single visitor seeing a gap.
Moving the site was the easy half. The job was to move it so cleanly that the only thing anyone noticed was that it got faster.
A safer, faster site, moved without a gap.
The client judged this on what they could feel afterwards rather than on how we ran the project.
Nobody was offline
We rebuilt and tested the site on our platform before touching DNS, so the switch off GoDaddy happened without a single visitor seeing an interruption.
Locked down properly
We added Content-Security-Policy and HSTS and served a clean HTTPS redirect, so the site matched the standard ALLOWLIST are known for.
A real person on the end of the phone
They deal directly with the person doing the work. That, and the failover that keeps the site up during updates, is the personal touch Stuart describes below.
The numbers after the move
Same monitoring tool, same test, before and after the switch from GoDaddy. Measured over a full 24 hours, with nobody offline during the move.
How the migration was handled
A straight GoDaddy-to-Codo move, run so the risk sat with us beforehand rather than with them on launch day.
Rebuild and test it here first
We stood the WordPress site up on our platform and tested it end to end while GoDaddy carried on serving live traffic, so nothing had to be proven in production.
Harden, then switch DNS
We added Content-Security-Policy and HSTS, set up the clean redirect from http://allowlist.io to https://www.allowlist.io, and only then pointed the DNS at us. The cutover took the site down for no time at all.
Stay on afterwards
We kept looking after the platform after launch, including the failover that keeps the site available while it updates.
Client feedback
“The process to move was seamless and the site just works.”
“It is incredible value for money for hassle free hosting and blistering fast website speeds. This is a great service in a market that is over populated with offerings that do not provide the personal touch. The fact that Mark engages with you and you can speak to a real human is amazing. The instant failover is a life saver that means the user never experiences down time in those short windows where the site needs to be updated. Highly recommend.”
Stuart Barker, ALLOWLIST
There's a fuller write-up if you want it.
The PDF goes through the migration approach in more detail than this page does.
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