Best Practices Checklist To Launch A New Website Inside of HubSpot

Hi. I’m in need of a Best Practices Checklist To Launch A New Website Inside of HubSpot including:

  • DNS changes to make to the domain name
  • Anything we need to do with SSL
  • Should we use a sub-domain temporarily to not lose traffic in the transition of DNS propegation through the web
  • Etc.

I am moving our website over from Wix and I haven’t been able to find a good document that gives this checklist.

Hi @MA6 , I also was not able to find a defined best practice list for this particular website migration, but I did find a few resources that might help.
This article lays out the steps of how to migrate your website to HubSpot and speaks to content migration tools that can be leveraged. How to migrate your website to HubSpot

This question and answer that I found on quora mentions moving your SSL certificate when migrating from one hosting provider to another, however, are you changing your hosting provider as well when you move your content and pages over to HubSpot? If yes, then I would take a look at this. https://www.quora.com/Can-SSL-certificates-be-moved-when-migrating-from-one-hosting-provider-to-another

As for your question regarding site traffic and DNS propagation, I found these two resources that should be help provide some insight.
This one is a run through on all the different questions and answers to consider regarding DNS propagation. https://licreativetechnologies.com/seo/do-you-lose-traffic-when-website-is-in-propogation/

This resource is a blog article titled, The Website Owners Guide to DNS Propagation 2022 Edition. DNS Propagation: The Website Owner's Guide
I hope these resources help and that the migration goes smoothly!

Hi @MA6 ,

We wouldn’t really have a checklist for this sort of thing, but we would have a number of resources I can share!

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