I'm done with Godaddy. They keep renewing me for 3 years after I already set up a monthly payment arrangement. For 5 months now, I've had 3 years worth removed from my business checking and 5 times I've had to call them and have them reverse the charges and cancel the auto renew. They keep lying to me and telling me I'll be billed monthly. They want to charge me $827 for my wordpress site for 3 years.

I'm done with them and I'm ready to move to a different web hosting provider. I'll probably get a nice intro deal that's cheap. I need to migrate my website and my email.

Who do you recommend? How hard will this be?
Hostinger?, Bleuhost? domain.com? siteground? web.com? Others?

Tony.

I have hosting at DreamHost for almost 30 years, and
inherited" a Bluehost account.

If you want to discuss particulars (and anything discreet) let me know.

I have transferred in WP site via "Dreamhost's" plugin with no issues.


Likely your WP Site editor plugin will work after transferring.
In any event, your original site will continue to work if the transfer breaks it on the gaining host.

If you have other content and/or applications and want me to see about compatibility. migration I can evaluate those.

(At the usual sigmonkey fee™ of free)

They are charging me $827 for 3 years of wordpress and $155/year for Microsoft 365. I also pay $22/year for my domain.

My e-mail and domain are paid until October.

Tony.

Are you using the 365 for CRM, Marketing or other?

Any POS/shopping cart etc?

(I added to my original reply.)

I'm in the process of starting a side business. I did a ton of research this past fall. I wound up going with Pork Bun to register my domain and Hostinger to host the website and email.

I don't remember exactly why I went with 2 separate providers, I think it was recommended from a few people on the YouTube.

Thanks Monkey!

I don't have an online shopping cart. I just use the Outlook portion of 365 and maybe the calendar. I keep notes on it too.

Tony.

Is your 365 operating from your PC as an app, or integrated with the site?

Let me know when you may have some time to discuss and I'll give you all the info I have.

No matter what way you choose to go, I'll offer any assistance or answer questions, in migrating you may require.

My recommendation is to take the Monkey to the cleaners (probably needs a bath anyway ) and strictly follow any advice/counsel he is so gracious to offer. Send him a case of bananas (or banana liqueur) when you're done, or tune his Garand for free. If you do all of these you will still be well ahead.

I suspect moving the web site will be, by far, the biggest time sink. But don't ask me, I'm not a web guy. A Ducky search for "website cloning" shows several free options for moving a site from one provider to another. To be expected as this has to be a common need. I'm sure the next hoster you select will be able to assist (at a price). Be aware that GD may use several mechanisms to inhibit these actions in the name of customer retention. Such things as includes of destination-restricted code fragments, inclusion of copyrighted code, etc. not to mention that they probably have site tracking code embedded. Once "cloned" the HTML/CSS/etc. will have to be inspected for these artifacts before publication.

Changing domain registrars, e-mail providers, etc. is much much easier. I can help you with these if you'd like. I can recommend Hurricane Electric and ProtonMail for these respectively, but there are dozens of no-cost options. There is some value to keeping all this under one roof, but this will reduce your options and serve to increase your repetitive outlays.

Update:

Took the monkey's advice and switched to Dreamhost. Got set up for 3 years for about $120. I tried pulling my Wordpress site over from GD to DH but I have to wait a few more days for the domain to transfer. I had to pay for one more month of Wordpress from GD so I don't lose my site ($32).

Once the domain is transferred the Wordpress migration should complete, or at least that's what I understand. I requested the transfer on the 20th, so hopefully by the 25th the domain will have transferred and my site migration will go through. I've got some time to sort out the email that I have set up through GD.

Anyway, just letting you know what was happening. Thanks to everyone for the input.

Tony.

quote:

Once the domain is transferred the Wordpress migration should complete, or at least that's what I understand. I requested the transfer on the 20th, so hopefully by the 25th the domain will have transferred and my site migration will go through. I've got some time to sort out the email that I have set up through GD.

Anyway, just letting you know what was happening. Thanks to everyone for the input.

I migrated a WP site using the DH plugin on the losing site, and it was uneventful.

If you paid DH to transfer, it should be seamless.

Just transferred a domain I have from GoDaddy to Epik, the Epik side is easypeasy, GoDaddy really hates to loose that domain revenue and you have to go through multiple validation steps with text and email codes to move it.

Part of it makes it ok from a security standpoint but 3 validation emails?

Saves me some moola so that's good.

Have to check into Dreamhost..