I want to get a forum up as soon as possible and for free, and then compare free hosts and paid hosts, to see if I can find a better host for me to use later. (I’ve found some free hosts for WordPress, and I hope one will work.) In other words, I might want to change hosts, if it is possible to change from one free host to another free host (or to a paid host), without losing my forum (and the threads of, posts of, and information about those who registered). My problem is that, while I’ve found migration tools that make a bbPress forum from different forum software (if it is called software), I haven’t found any that make a forum from the same forum software (that is used with a different host). Can bbPress, or any software, do that? If I can change the host, will bbPress automatically do that? Is it possible to change from using one free host to using another free host, while using bbPress? Thank you.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years ago]

if you want to migrate from one host to another, ad may want to do this more than once, then it would pay to learn how to migrate the site eg

https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-move-wordpress-to-a-new-host-or-server-with-no-downtime/

[@jason975 Participant 4 years ago]

In the tutorial that Robin W gave me a link to, in step 1 (“Step 1: Choose Your New WordPress Host”), does the new host have to be a paid host? Or, can it be a free host, that has part of the free host’s name in my address?

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years ago]

not really a bbpress question, this relates to the transfer of your whole site, and you may need to google round on this, but essentially it is entirely possible