Sadly a lot of those "button-pressing" hosting services are going to cost a
bit more money vs firing up a instance on AWS or Droplet. Plus if all your
friend needs is Wordpress and email. What's wrong with firing up an EC2
instance for like 10/20 bucks a month and Namecheap for the DNS? Heck you
can get an email provider that does the heavy lifting for 5 bucks a month
if email is a huge concern.

With tons of migration tools for MySQL and rsync, migration should be a
breeze if you know what you are doing. Let me know if I'm missing something
here.

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 12:43 PM Victor Odhner <vodhner@cox.net> wrote:

> A friend who is totally non-technical wants to move their WordPress from
> the current registry and hosting service, and is looking for is good
> providers of registry and hosting, with the most honest reputations within
> a reasonable cost.
>
> A few years ago I worked with NameCheap, and have heard fairly good
> stories.
>
> I’ve heard some registrars are in a better chance to negotiate transfer of
> a name which may be owned by the current registrar.
>
> I’m pretty sure my friend was spoon-fed the setup with a single phone
> call, and might find a change too complicated. I am personally free of [
> *largest-of-local-providers*], so my bias is towards running away from [
> *that*], but I don’t really know what choices are “out there” for
> innocent button-pressing clients.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> Victor Odhner
>
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