Introduction
Instructions for migrating your site using our guided migration process.
Discuss in our Forum Discuss in SlackWelcome to Pantheon! We want to make it easy for you to move a site from Kinsta to Pantheon. Simply use the following instructions, and you'll be good to go!
Note
If you are moving a Drupal site and want to upgrade to the latest version of Drupal, use one of the following guides instead:
- Your site is Composer-managed: Migrate a Composer Managed Drupal Site from Another Platform or Import Drush Site Archives with Terminus
- Your site is not Composer-managed: Migrate a Drupal Site from Another Platform
There are a few methods for migrating your site to Pantheon:
Guided Migration
This method uses the Migrate Existing Site button on the User Dashboard, and is the method described in this guide.
Migrate Manually
Use this process when any of the following apply:
General Scenarios
You want to debug a failed migration.
- It can be helpful to migrate your code, database, and files separately to help debug edge-cases that are not supported through guided migration.
The site or site archive is greater than 500MB.
Drupal-Specific Scenarios
The site uses Drush 9 or later (
drush ardis only available on Drush 8 and earlier).The site is managed with Composer.
WordPress-Specific Scenarios
You are using WordPress Multisite.
Plugin install is unavailable.
You are migrating a site that is only on your local machine and not yet live.
Review Manually Migrate Sites to Pantheon for instructions on this method.
Professional Services
Pantheon's Professional Services team can migrate your site for you. Learn more about our Website Migration Service and how we can help you migrate one or hundreds of sites to Pantheon.