Migrating wordpress site on Compute Engine to a third-party hosting

[Lucas G]

I have had my wordpress site on Google Compute Engine for a couple of years, and in the last few months the cost of hosting it (a very small, less than 500 pages, less than 500 visitors per day) has skyrocketed - therefore, I decided I want to move my site out of GCE and on to one of the cheaper hosting services out there. 

my question is if there are detailed instructions on how to get my site out of GCE (database, files, posts, everything) 

thanks

[Alexandre Duval-Cid]

Hello Lucas,

It's very hard to give you an answer without knowing where you want to migrate to. GCP has several VM migration tools [1], Other platforms 

would have instructions on how to use them to migrate to them.

Here is some documentation on how to reduce VM costs in GCP if it interests you [2] .

For future questions related to VM migration I would recommend a venue such as Serverfault.com [3], they have a friendly active community that 

takes great pleasure in helping build and manage VM and cloud architecture.

Have yourself a good day.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/vm-migrate/#products-and-services
[2] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/six-google-cloud-platform-features-that-can-save-you-time-and-money

[3] https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/migration

[Lucas G]

hi Alexandre, 

thanks for your answer and posting resources. 

i am convinced about leaving google compute engine/cloud - it's too complex for what i want/need, and I am going to migrate my wordpress site to BlueHost - a fairly rated host for WP sites. 

i am still trying to get my site off of GCE... so anyone having more ideas on how to do it, please share

thanks

[Riyaz Jiwani]

There are lots of plugins to download your entire wp site. I’ve used the All in one wp migration plugin to download sites and transfer to new hosts.