Auto Parts E-commerce Migration

A UK-based auto parts retailer needed to move their WooCommerce storefront off a host that had become slow and expensive to run. The catalogue was large and heavily interlinked — vehicle-fitment data, part numbers and category trees that all had to survive the move intact.

I handled the full migration end to end: auditing the existing install, provisioning and configuring the new Hostinger environment, moving the database and media library, and rebuilding the mail, caching and SSL configuration on the other side.

The riskiest part of any store migration is the cutover, so I staged the whole thing first: a full copy running on a temporary domain, checked page by page against the live site, with search-and-replace on serialised WordPress options rather than a naive database find/replace.

After DNS propagation I worked through the post-move debugging pass — broken plugin paths, permalink and redirect rules, checkout and payment gateway callbacks, and the transactional emails that quietly break on every host change.

The store went live on the new platform without a customer-facing outage, and the client kept their existing theme, plugins and order history exactly as they were.