Google domains is $12 a year. No extra fees. You can even hide your info for Free. On Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 12:51 PM Andrew McRobb wrote: > 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 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss