Self-Hosting Migration Guide

What you'll need

• GitHub account — github.com — free. You'll receive your site's full code repository.
• Vercel account — vercel.com — free tier available. Used to deploy and host your site.
• Sanity account — sanity.io — free tier available. Your CMS for managing site content.
• 15–30 minutes — Most of this is clicking through setup wizards. No coding required.

1. Create a free account at github.com if you don't have one.
2. Go to Settings → Developer Settings → Personal access tokens → Tokens (classic). Generate a new token with the reposcope checked. Copy it — you'll paste it into the SiteForge migration screen.
3. When you click Migratein your dashboard, SiteForge uses that token to create a new private repository in your account and push all your site's code into it automatically.
4. You'll receive the full repository URL once migration completes. Keep it — you'll need it in the next steps.

1. Create a free account at sanity.io.
2. Create a new project. Give it any name — we suggest your business name. Note the Project ID shown in the project dashboard (a short string like abc123de).
3. Download your content export from your SiteForge dashboard (available on the migration completion screen). It's a single .ndjson file.
4. In your Sanity project, go to Manage → Datasets, then import the .ndjson file into your production dataset.
5. You'll need your Sanity Project ID and dataset name (production) when configuring Vercel below.

1. Create an account at vercel.com and connect your GitHub account.
2. Click Add New → Project, then select the repository SiteForge pushed to your GitHub account.
3. Before deploying, click Environment Variables and add:
   NEXT_PUBLIC_SANITY_PROJECT_IDYour Sanity Project ID from Step 2

   NEXT_PUBLIC_SANITY_DATASETproduction
4. Click Deploy. Vercel will build and publish your site. This takes 1–2 minutes.
5. Your site is live at a *.vercel.app URL. To connect your own domain, go to Project Settings → Domainsand follow Vercel's instructions to point your DNS.

If you prefer Railway (railway.app) over Vercel, the process is nearly identical:

1. Create an account at railway.app and connect your GitHub.
2. Click New Project → Deploy from GitHub repo and select your repository.
3. Add the same two environment variables (NEXT_PUBLIC_SANITY_PROJECT_ID, NEXT_PUBLIC_SANITY_DATASET).
4. Railway auto-detects Next.js and deploys. Your site is live within minutes.

Need help?

Questions during migration? Email support@gositeforge.com within your 48-hour window and we'll help you through it. After that, support is available through our standard paid plans.