<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 2, 2019, at 3:28 PM, <a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" class="">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On 2019-09-02 14:02, Victor Odhner wrote:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">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.<br class="">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.<br class=""></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">If they are storing any data in the database they will need to backup both the files and the database.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>There are lots of scripts around you can use that do full WP backups that include everything.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">(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.)<br class=""></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">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.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FWIW, another cool registrar I found recently is <a href="https://u2206659.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=ACNb6uRgJ9gAdgDJMek6Z5b1oydcHMfwhP1XyieHnVwEcPeJd-2BCIMx-2BCeuFfImra_6lpMB7VLnN-2Fj9-2FEErg8-2F-2BMBpb5QxlByTgv2M3fbWD9ebvC-2BWrN3h7jImK8EVWYBee0H1aAGQhDZquZjYBdJTMnm9ojIqL30tJDzwrk7ygRuVVlD6dycQHPBJJMBi8Lx-2F3W7utUfT0IRlHj2x-2Ffchn-2BXTE0UzW-2Fax3XGjCNTJO5h6ylqB-2BPM7MSxVTVsz-2BLon-2BEczVHU8U7qd4jlNv7Fn4sdUMPQU2nvketxOZOBX0ac-3D" class="">DomainCostClub.com</a> . 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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-David Schwartz</div><img src="https://u2206659.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/open?upn=6lpMB7VLnN-2Fj9-2FEErg8-2F-2BMBpb5QxlByTgv2M3fbWD9ebvC-2BWrN3h7jImK8EVWYBee0H1aAGQhDZquZjYBdJTMnnvP5XY5Cpp4kV0O-2B8Z-2FMMqMS1I12CmY6FVn2gurZyP63q-2F-2BLHNIq-2FyBx-2BtbM1lK6LCXnOTzj6otHC1hyWaPKQF4iEpvioRExoq6LQ3I6i5mp1wjfv74Mbi2-2B5L1WvylPgEmlknagYZ5w-2BfLAegUH8Ixb2umsd8uhoF6-2BFMKH6a" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" style="height:1px !important;width:1px !important;border-width:0 !important;margin-top:0 !important;margin-bottom:0 !important;margin-right:0 !important;margin-left:0 !important;padding-top:0 !important;padding-bottom:0 !important;padding-right:0 !important;padding-left:0 !important;"/></body></html>