One evening at about ten, I asked OpenAI Codex to move my eight websites from Veebimajutus to Hostinger, including email. I watched the progress with interest for about an hour, then went to bed.
When I woke up, all eight websites had been migrated. Almost everything worked, and we fixed one site’s email issue in a few minutes that morning. I had been asleep in the meantime.
Why I left Veebimajutus
Money was not the main reason. During the busy summer season, my website repeatedly went down. As I remember it, this happened four times in fairly quick succession. The problem was on the hosting side.
One morning at about six, I contacted support to ask what was happening. I was told there was a server problem and the technician would start work at ten. My site was offline, and I had to wait.
At first I wondered whether I had broken something. I received no outage notification, explanation or apology afterwards. I had to investigate why the site was not working.
After several interruptions like that, I had had enough. I decided to move all my sites elsewhere.
Codex migrated the websites while I slept
So one evening I gave Codex the task. Hostinger was the new provider, and both the websites and email needed to move.
For the first hour, I watched with interest. Normally, I would sit at the computer carrying out the steps and solving problems as they arose. This time, I could watch Codex do the work.
In the morning, we found that one website could no longer send emails to customers. Something had gone wrong during the move. We resolved it in about five minutes.
By then, the main work was done. Eight websites and their email had moved, and I had not needed to stay up all night.
Mobile test scores of 98 and 91 instead of around 60
I had already suspected the old hosting was limiting site speed. After the move, Google’s Lighthouse mobile tests showed scores of 98 and 91 where they had previously been around 60.
I did not redesign the pages or their content for this. It was a move to different hosting, not a new website build. To me, that was a substantial difference.
These were my test results after the migration. Lighthouse scores can vary between runs, so these numbers cannot attribute the entire change to the host alone. Still, I was pleased with the results at the new provider.
This is where AI helps me
I cannot say how long the migration would have taken without Codex, but probably quite a while. I would also have had to investigate and solve the problems encountered along the way.
For me, AI’s practical value often looks like this. A task needs doing, but I no longer have to carry out every step at the computer myself. I can assign it, follow the early progress and check the result later. During this migration, I could sleep in between.
In the previous article, I described how we built a 3D shower room from one image with Codex. This time, the task was moving eight websites to another host. The more work I do with AI, the more places I find where it can help.
I will not detail every technical migration step here. I may make a separate course about it. But being able to go to bed while Codex continues working on my websites still feels remarkable to me.
