Marathon Migration is the official plugin for moving your WordPress site to Marathon Hosting. It handles everything automatically — your files, database, themes, plugins, and media — so you arrive on Marathon Hosting with a complete, working copy of your site.

No FTP. No cPanel. No manual database exports. No downtime on your current site.

How to migrate:

Log in to your Marathon Hosting account and generate a migration token from your site’s overview page
Install and activate this plugin on your current WordPress site
Go to Marathon Migration in your WordPress admin and paste your token
Click Start Migration — most sites complete in 2–10 minutes

That’s it. Your current site stays online the entire time.

What gets transferred:

Your complete database
All WordPress core files (your exact version — no forced upgrades)
All themes, plugins, uploads, and media
Must-use plugins

What does not transfer:

Server-specific configuration files — your new Marathon Hosting environment provides its own
Cache files and cache plugin output — these are rebuilt fresh on your new server
Log files and backup archives created by other plugins
Host-specific platform code from your previous host — these belong to your old host, not your site
The migration plugin itself — automatically removed after a successful transfer

What is not supported:

WordPress multisite installs are not currently supported. If the plugin detects a multisite network it will refuse to start the migration with a clear error before any data is transferred. Contact Marathon Hosting support if you need to migrate a multisite network.

External services

This plugin connects to the Marathon Hosting Gateway to coordinate your site migration. This service is required — without it the plugin cannot validate your migration token or connect your current site to your new Marathon Hosting environment.

The Gateway is contacted only after you paste a token and click Start Migration. No data is sent before you explicitly begin.

This service is operated by Marathon Hosting: