> On Sep 2, 2019, at 3:28 PM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
>
> On 2019-09-02 14:02, Victor Odhner wrote:
>
>> I want to thank all the folks who have responded. Responses were *all*
>> educational, but the main tunes are (a) that's business and something can go
>> wrong with any provider; and (b) that running even a simple site is hard,
>> and non-techies are going to be challenged; so an established hand-holding
>> provider environment for a WordPress blog is a good thing.
>> I am recommending that my friend stick with what's working. And I'll make
>> sure they have some backup for the contents as suggested below.
>
>
> If they are storing any data in the database they will need to backup both
> the files and the database.
>
There are lots of scripts around you can use that do full WP backups that
include everything.
>> (The offense that set this off was against a little organization we both
>> have connections to. The outrageous cost for an expired name registry caused
>> clients' management to switch to a using a secondary URL. After some
>> grumbling I moved on, but my friend is a justice fighter and felt the need
>> to make a statement.)
>
> I think the going rate for registering a domain is $15 a year. Occasionally
> I get an email that says my domain is expiring and for just $60.... They can
> take care of that.... These are phishing emails that do not come from my
> registrar. I've even gotten them for long expired domains that I no longer
> am interested in.
>
NameSilo and NameCheap are both under $9 for .com TLDs. NameSilo includes free
domain privacy forever. NameCheap includes one year of WhoisGuard for free, but
it’s around $2/yr after that; they also include a PositiveSSL Cert free for one
year with each new domain name purchase.
FWIW, another cool registrar I found recently is DomainCostClub.com . they have
a HUGE selection of TLDs, many at SIGNIFICANT discounts. You pay an annual fee
depending on how many domains you have registered with them, then pay
rock-bottom prices (“at cost”) for any domains you register with them. They
include domain privacy for free, and have pretty decent hosting prices on a
per-domain basis. They regularly have a nice selection of domains for $1.
-David Schwartz
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