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Changing Web Host Providers

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BrianW

BrianW Report 20 Nov 2016 21:18

Our prostate cancer support group has a website for which I act as webmaster, set up three years ago.
The hosting contract with iPage came up for renewal and I got charged an extortionate amount.
I need to change providers to a more reasonable supplier but having identified one I need advice on the procedure to follow in order to execute the swap.

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 20 Nov 2016 22:16

https://www.1and1.co.uk
no brainer

Researching:
The Man In the High Castle

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 21 Nov 2016 11:14

It is more than likely that the domain authority for yr web site is with the existing ISP. It can be expensive / difficult / impossible to get them to release the domain to another ISP or the ostensible "owner". If that happens all you can do is to start over and leave a pointer from the old site and hope the old ISP doesn't jump on it.

A far better approach is to register a domain yourself and only then fix up for a web hosting site. This approach can be economical but is never the cheapest. It also requires a bit of real know how beyond point n click.

Get a copy of .net magazine (Tesco, WH Smith, JS etc) which has a handy index of web ISPs.

Researching:
The Man In the High Castle