Situation & fix

My Website Builder Is Shutting Down

An email announced the platform is closing, prices tripled overnight, or your plan is "legacy" now. Builders die regularly, and the sites on them die too, unless they move first. The deadline in that email is real.

Why this is urgent even if the date looks far away

Builder shutdowns degrade in stages: first new features stop, then support thins out, then exports get flaky under the load of everyone leaving at once, and finally the servers go dark and every URL you own returns errors. The best exports and the calmest migrations happen early. We have rebuilt sites from platforms that died faster than their published schedule, from their archive snapshots, at twice the price of a timely move.

Your migration window checklist

Export everything the platform allows today, even before choosing where to go: content exports, image archives, contact lists, order history. Screenshot every page at full length (scrolling screenshots), because visual references outlive exports. Confirm the domain is registered in your own account at a registrar, not “provided by” the builder; platform-bundled domains are the most common thing people lose in shutdowns.

Where to land

We migrate shutdown refugees to WordPress: it is open-source, so no company can sunset it, and it runs on any hosting. The move preserves your design (rebuilt pixel-accurate, since dying builders never export layouts), your content and your SEO: URL structure kept or 301-mapped, metadata transferred, redirect map included. See the platform-specific guides for what your builder can and cannot export, or send us the shutdown email and we will reply with a fixed quote and a timeline that beats the deadline.

Frequently asked questions

The platform promises an "archive mode". Is that enough?

Archive mode means read-only pages on someone else's schedule, usually without your domain, forms or updates. It is a tombstone, not a website. Treat it as a data source for migration, not a destination.

How long does an emergency migration take?

A typical business site moves in 5-10 days. If your deadline is tighter, we can stage it: a functional copy of the critical pages goes live first, the long tail follows.

Will I have to do this again when something else shuts down?

Not with self-hosted WordPress: there is no company behind it that can close it. Hosting can change under your feet, but moving a standard WordPress site between hosts is a routine one-day job, not a rebuild.

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