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So I signed up with Contabo for their "free migration" and they moved my wordpress but ALL the URLs changed. My permalinks went from /2025/12/post-name to /blog/post-name and google is punishing me hard. Traffic down 60% in a week. Hostign support says "not our problem we just moved files"
Anyone dealt with this? Can I fix with redirects or am I screwed? My ad revenue is dying!
Your email deliverability probably took a hit too if they mangled your DNS during migration. For what it's worth, check whether your SPF record still points to the right outbound IP; I've seen "free migrations" that break authentication entirely.
For the SEO damage, 301 redirects at the web server level will pass most link equity. Map old to new in your .htaccess or nginx config. If the structure change was predictable, regex can handle bulk redirects. If not, you'll need a manual mapping or a plugin.
Also: demand their migration logs. They owe you documentation of what changed.
This happens more often with Linux-to-Linux migrations than Windows-to-Windows, since IIS has built-in URL rewrite modules that providers actually test. That's not helpful if you're already on a LAMP stack. The 301 advice above is solid regardless of platform.
Here we go again. Demand logs in writing so when they ghost you there's a paper trail for your chargeback
Went down again; ticket open; no response
I examined the migration script they use; it's floating around on a paste site from 2019; it hardcodes /blog/ as the destination path because that was their template environment in 2019; they never updated it for custom structures; this is negligence dressed as convenience; -- Sebastian
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Bro thats WILD!!! U should name and shame on the other forum too!!! Server scripts from 2019??? Hosting industry is a joke!!! Make a spreadsheet of all broken URLs and 301 them!!! Also check if they copied the.htaccess!!! Sometimes they forget!!!
