How to move a website hosting?
I have three websites that are all built (by me) through a company called ‘Mr Site’. I would like to try building them myself via a program I’ve bought called ‘Website x5′ (Incomedia).
What I don’t understand is how to get the website addresses back from Mr Site. I originally bought the names via 123 Reg, and then I think they were transferred to Mr Site when I bought a ‘website package’ from Mr Site. It’s time to renew my website hosting package with Mr Site, and I don’t want to. But if I don’t – who gets the names? How do I transfer the names to me??
In other words, I own three website addresses which are currently being hosted through Mr Site. If I don’t renew with them, how do I get the names from them? How do I host my own site?
I hope this makes sense, and thank you for your help!
Well, the Domain names belong to you for the period prescribed by the contract you signed with whoever you got them from. Check to see how long you own them for, and you can renew that separately in most cases, or transfer it to another web host. I know Dream Host has a service for this. (Dream Host is the best host I have ever used.) As for transferring your site, you just need to download all of the files you have on the server, and then re-upload them to a new server of your choosing.
If you want to host your own site, and this is from your own machine at home I assume, you first need to read through your ISP’s terms of service. Most of them have specific notes forbidding running your own webserver. You might have to pay to upgrade your account through them. If you have all of that set up, it’s as simple as installing some form of freeware web server software on your machine, I recommend WAMP, mainly because of the simplicity and the wide range of plugins that you can get for it. Once you have that installed, just forward the port 80 on your router to the machine running wamp. I’ts really a simple process. I did it that way for quite a few years!
Hope this helps!
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I don’t know about getting the domains back – ask them.
But hosting your own site – get apache -(free download ) follow instructions on their website http://www.apache.org/ – install on your pc along with the pages you have created and you are there.
References :
http://www.apache.org/
Well, the Domain names belong to you for the period prescribed by the contract you signed with whoever you got them from. Check to see how long you own them for, and you can renew that separately in most cases, or transfer it to another web host. I know Dream Host has a service for this. (Dream Host is the best host I have ever used.) As for transferring your site, you just need to download all of the files you have on the server, and then re-upload them to a new server of your choosing.
If you want to host your own site, and this is from your own machine at home I assume, you first need to read through your ISP’s terms of service. Most of them have specific notes forbidding running your own webserver. You might have to pay to upgrade your account through them. If you have all of that set up, it’s as simple as installing some form of freeware web server software on your machine, I recommend WAMP, mainly because of the simplicity and the wide range of plugins that you can get for it. Once you have that installed, just forward the port 80 on your router to the machine running wamp. I’ts really a simple process. I did it that way for quite a few years!
Hope this helps!
http://www.nerdnoggin.com
References :
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
As you may know a domain name is just a name, not a real website. Web hosting company just provides your online space and enable you to get your website online at your purchased domain name.
Don’t worry. Your domains are yours. You can renew them by 123reg. Mrsite just provides your website space on the web. You can pick a new web host supporting multiple domains and get all your websites hosted by that service.
As an experienced webmaster I recommend BlueHost service which I’m sure it would work for you and fulfill all your requirements. They have a really great offer for hosting & I have used them for over 3 yrs now, and have never had a single problem with them.
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Good Luck!
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