> On Sep 2, 2019, at 3:28 PM, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
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> On 2019-09-02 14:02, Victor Odhner wrote:
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>> 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.
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> If they are storing any data in the database they will need to backup both the files and the database.
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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.)
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> 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.
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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