OT: Non-Geek wants honest Registrar and Host service

[Bob Elzer]

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On Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 12:51 PM Andrew McRobb <andrewmcrobb at gmail.com> 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 <vodhner at 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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