Initially I wanted to get "myname.com" but it was belong to somebody else. I bought "my-name.com" instead, and I built a website and business with this domain.

Later, I found out that "myname.com" became available and no one was trying to get it for years. Last month I finally purchased it. To be clear, these domains are under two different domain providers, and the website is hosted by another company.

Question 1: Obviously the easiest way is to redirect from the newly obtained domain "myname.com" to "my-name.com". But what is the downside with this approach?

Question 2: If I want to shift to "myname.com" to strengthen the brand, can I just make it point to the hosting server, and then set up redirect with the old domain? Will it mess up with my website?

I am looking to create a simple personal website with links to some of my posts on linkedin, maybe some articles, some photos, maybe upload a few vide interviews with guests on tech topics etc. but I do want to make sure it's always up or atleast the lack of a dedicated IP does not cause any issues in accessing the website. Is it worth getting dedicated IP for this or there is no need? My understanding is once I have dedicated IP I wont run into any DNS resolution errors which can cause my website to be inaccessible, If that's true how frequently does this happen? I am with inmotionhosting.

Assuming I want to use only the CDN, I have current site A, and I want that some of his files will be served from bunny, than I setup a name of A to bunny.

Then: A. What is the pricing? Is it simply the traffic price or there is additional storage price or other "fine printing" price I should be aware of? B. How long do a file saved cached on Bunny? C. Do bunny allow fine grain log collecting (like I want to get the list of fileName:MonthlyBwUsage)

I just started working on a new website as a hobby (doing stuff in raw HTML/CSS/JS) and have hosting through Bluehost. I noticed they offer a backup service for X dollars per month. Because this is a hobby project and I want to minimize costs, is there anything stopping me from scheduling FTP downloads at a regularly scheduled interval using their SSH interface and doing backups myself?

Seems like a pretty easy workaround but not sure if doing that is against user policy or something.

I built a wp site on flywheel demo. Is there a way to move the entire site including plugins that have been setup, themes, etc? Is there a plugin to do this easily?

Hello! I'm quite new to the world of web hosting and struggle to decide on a host for my use case.

I'm making a game that will be distributed through a custom launcher that downloads the game files via FTP from a server. Download size is a few GBs, traffic from all around the world but mainly US/Europe and most likely in bursts when a new version is released. Initial estimate is 1-5K users downloading per month. The server needs to be publicly accessible and also be able to run PHP through the URL, for example:http://website.com/file.php .

I don't need a visible website or anything, just a place to upload and download files. I also have a domain already that is linked to a Wix website, wondering if I need a new domain for the file server or if it's possible to reuse it? Budget is whatever is required for this to run reasonably well in terms of upload/download speed.

Thanks!

Hello there everyone.

Just a quick heads up.

I had the hatchling plan as shared web hosting, passed the 10gb storage and they automatically bumped me to pro in the category of wordpress hosting. Since I renewed monthly support chat said I wasn't notified of this...the ones who do it yearly were?

Anyone else have this happen to them? Is this even legal without letting me know? Cheers

Hey everyone,

I'm having a frustrating issue and hoping someone here can help. Here’s my situation:

I have a domain registered through Shopify, and everything works fine with it, including GSuite (Google Workspace). No problems there—emails work great.

Now, I want to add a subdomain (mail.mydomain.com) for email marketing purposes. I've added this subdomain in Shopify, and it's successfully verified in Google Workspace (as shown here in the first screenshot).

However, when I try to "Activate Gmail" for this subdomain, Google asks me to add specific MX records for verification (screenshot 2). I followed those instructions precisely and added the MX records as shown, with the main one pointing to smtp.google.com.

Despite this, Google keeps telling me it cannot verify the subdomain, and I get the error seen in the third screenshot.

Here are the MX Records I’ve added (you can see them in the fourth screenshot):

Google keeps saying verification could not be completed, and I should ensure all fields are correct.

I don't believe I have to delete pre-existing MX records.

Has anyone experienced a similar issue with setting up Google Workspace for a subdomain through Shopify? Any advice would be super helpful, especially if there's something obvious I might be missing.

Thank you so much in advance!

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/iXqO1A9

Hi all,

I need some help with our website https://sueca13flores.com/.

I am getting the error that our site has redirected too many times.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/U2H2Sw4.jpeg

Could anyone help me understand what is causing the issue and how to fix it?

Thank you!

My company has an older site hosted through liquidweb and is managed through a company that I have to run all cpanel requests though and it's a nightmare.

We are developing an LMS that is being hosted on bluehost and that we had planned to establish as a subdomain with our main site.

We want to rehost the main site, but don't want to do that process while also trying to run the pilot programs for our LMS so my conundrum is whether or not is possibly/feasibly/reasonable to migrate the main site to our bluehost account and re-establish the LMS as a subdomain there.

Our webdev for the LMS is balking at the idea of migrating the main site after setting up the LMS as a subdomain, but says they don't deal with DNS/Hosting to explain the situation and concerns.

I've tried finding someone that resembles this situation online and have not be able to find anything remotely close, so any help or insight would be immensely useful/enlightening.

My website was deleted and due to inactivity for 90 days, WPX deleted the backup. Is there any way I can obtain the files for the website?

WPX is stating that it is totally gone... :(

I'm trying to avoid the shiny black Friday deals and looking for Direct Admin reseller hosting for multiple Wordpress sites. I want to do reseller to keep them siloed. (Open to other ideas if you have them.) I've seen lots of recommendations for NameCrane and HostBrr, both seem good. The sites are pretty low volume so not looking for anything like super-managed Wordpress options. Hosting sites will be for North America audiences.

I'm wondering if anyone has others I should be checking out or good things to say about these two?

Thank you for taking time to read my post.

I have MyDomain.com with smarterasp.net. I would like to add the https to all the pages within the domain.

smarterasp.net is offering me a Comodo SSL for $53/yr ($29 for SSL + $24 for static IP). Is this a decent deal?

I don't want to move any of my content from smarterasp.net. I simply want to add the SSL certificate to my domain.

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We are currently with WP Engine and we've been mostly satisfied with them, but we've outgrown their shared plan and looking for a new home. Why? Our site it political in nature and given that Amazon has already shut down Parler 3 years ago for "tos violations", we aren't taking any chances.

Our site is a complex web application that I build on WordPress. Performant is crucial and the site is our livelihood, so its critical that we have maximum uptime

These are our requirements for web host:

• Dedicated managed server
• I (the sole web team) can modify site files, .htaccess, plugins, etc -- all WordPress root and config files
• I can modify the database as well (currently on MySQL 8, but hear Maria is more performant?)
• Cloud hosting acceptable, but not Amazon, Google, or Microsoft -- anything else is on the table

If it helps, here are some usage specs for our site:

• Allotted billable visits / mo: 400K Average visits per day: 13K+ Peak Visits: 100K+
• Allotted storage: 50 GB Average storage use: 12 GB Peak storage use: 15 GB
• Allotted bandwidth: 550 GB Average bandwidth use: 30 GB Peak bandwidth use: 49 GB

Finally, I had considered DigitalOcean and Cl*udwayz based on past reviews, but it looks like they've both degraded since being bought out?

Looking for guidance -- I'm in rough seas here with tigers swimming all around me.

I have multiple VPSs using dedicated public IPs from a single /24 network. I want to isolate the VMs into their own networks, while they only have their public IPs assigned to their network interfaces. Is this possible to do with a single bridge and unique VLANs on it for each VM? What I am concerned about is reusing the same public IP for the gateway of all VMs.

I am using Proxmox VE and trying to implement a routed setup where the node is the router for all VMs but VMs don't know about each other (as opposed to a bridge setup).

Hi everyone, what are the best hosting providers that allow a database(about 400 mb) and scripts for an adult site with affordable prices(<$10)?

Edit: To everyone who have shared info, I really appreciate it 🙏🏽 I'm now considering Contabo's VPS which has good specs at an affordable price(about $6) I've used AWS EC2's Ubuntu 20.04 image for testing. So far so good🙏🏽

But I'll do a research about Contabo a bit then I'll share more info about my experience

Hello I am currently exploring how to host a WooCommerce site on your VPS since I need to rebuild the site I have right now (inherited and in a bad state, barely working)

Anyways the existing WP installation is on a managed hosting plan of IONOS and it is just too slow.

I have tried out running cyberpanel and cloudpanel.
I managed to get wordpress running on both of them (not a big achievement, was very easy). Its wordpress, so I can start working on it right away! But my next concern is security. What does a managed hosting provider do in addition to run wordpress? should I maybe go with another panel? What should I take into consideration?

Greetings

I'm thinking of starting a website hosting business. I'm a website designer by trade. I host my clients sites now for free. So I think I'm going to purchase a resellers account and start charging new clients.

I tried to contact fatcow through chat online, they said they only help people with a blue host account. I tried again, they put me through to a contact form that froze multiple times.

Have spent hours now just trying to contact someone to change e-mailadres of the control panel and request authorization code for moving the domain. No contact possible and they just upped the prices with an unreasonable amount and want out, hosting is terrible.

Anyone have a contact email please?

Hello,

I bought a domain with google workspace, if you buy a domain from workspace they use squarespace. Id like to use a hosting site for wordpress with my domain, however you have to connect the Nameserver from the hosting site, there already Nameserver from google in my settings, if I paste the Nameservers from the hosting site it wont connect, if i only paste the Nameserver from the hosting site my gmail does not work, anyone has a solution?

We have opened a few ports via WHM HG Firewall Administration for our VPS. We use a non-standard port for SSH which has never been a problem. We recently had to open outbound port 587 to use a third party email service. We have found that this port periodically becomes blocked again (often enough for me to deploy a watchdog to alert us when it becomes blocked again). The HG Firewall Administration configuration is unchanged and all I have to do is restart the Firewall Service to open port the again. However, some outbound emails may bounce because the connection fails due to the port being closed again. Has anyone had a similar experience with some ports getting closed in spite of the configuration set via WHM and, if so, is there a workaround? (I've largely given up on HG support; it now requires excessive effort to get reliable answers to uncommon questions.)

Hi guys, first and foremost thanks for the help.

A while ago, i bought one of those offers from a hosting provider that gave me web hosting, a free domain and other things included, i don't know if i can disclose which is the hosting provider.

Basically, after the year had past, i didn't renew the web hosting, but renewed the domain name, since i intended to transfer it to another hosting provider.

The hosting provider, since i didn't pay the web hosting, suspended my account.

Now, when i login in the hosting provider everything is practically blocked minus the option to pay the amount that i owe.

Since i want to transfer the domain away i sent an email asking for the transfer code of the domain.

The response i had was that i had to pay a certain amount for my account being open before the suspension.

I have two questions.

Is is legal to block me from managing my domain because i didn't pay for the web hosting?

And can they just not send me the code to transfer the domain even tho i payed for the domain renewal?

Thanks for all the help!!

I've seen this issue addressed on here before, but some of the circumstances were slightly different. I want to leave Hostgator but keep my domain name. HostGator's prices are too high and for things I don't need. As I was a newbie, I went with a discounted prince to start and now deeply regret it. Hostgator Customer Service said if I only pay for my domain name but not to renew my hosting plan, I will lose access to email and won't be able to edit my site.

Does anyone know any way around this or if I can still transfer my domain name to a different hosting service? I'm a writer with a professional blog. Thank you!

I've been pretty happy with namesilo for several years with a single domain there.

Now it's renewal time, and they cannot take my payment from a CC because there's a constant error code from Braintree. It's not a helpful error code. The card has funds, the card is valid, I go through the 2FA payment validation from the bank, then the braintree code comes up.

Their suggestion is "use paypal" which I stopped using years back. But I guess I'll have to revitalise my paypal account just so I can renew, so the domain is not within 15 days of renewal, so I can transfer it to Cloudflare ...

OK, rant over. Go about your business ...

UPDATE:

So Namesilo say it is a response from braintree that they cannot process the payment. This card is open for overseas and internet payments, and github, anthropic, kagi, digital ocean have all taken payments from it just fine in the last week or so.

Braintree are blaming my bank. I may check with them, but if it is a bank thing then it means they've basically blacklisted Braintree, which makes it all a bit useless for me ...

They kept suggesting PayPal. Interestingly, Paylap own braintree, so cynical me is thinking they are trying to force people to use Paypal. I didn't really want to do this, but in the end I did and it went through first time ...

So now I am thinking Braintree are just a bit dodgy and I want to avoid any company using them, so will probably swap.

On the NameSilo side, I found their support nothing other than extremely responsive and as helpful as they could be under the circumstances, which is that it was a 3rd party issue. I still think I'm going to move away from them though because Braintree ...

Hi everyone, hope you're doing good.

I've been trying to host my sql dump in AWS RDS but it seems too complicated to me. This project included the sql dump (326 mb), 2 php files( fetch_data.php which fetches data from the database and index.php that satisfy the front-end, where the data can be searched from the fetch_data.php).

How can I simply host and allow them to interact without having to use my local host? Please help

I purchased BonoHost's LTD from Stacksocial, and after a year, they suspended my account without prior warning. They claimed that someone sent massive emails from my site's form, stating that I didn't protect it against spamming, which led to the suspension. Now they demand payment to reactivate my account. I believe this is blackmail, as my sites are down and I can't access my data to migrate them.

Please guide me on what I should do.

Here is their email:

Hi Irfan
We have a clear mandate to protect the platform against abuse
for the benefit of all users.

Abusing an account for e.g. any of the following:
» SPAM/SpamVertising
is not allowed according to terms.

You accepted our terms of service when you signed up.
We operate fully legally under those terms.

We need a clear statement from you that any abuse will not happen again,
before we can unsuspend your account. There are also admin fees to
rectify each case.
After both requirements have been satisfied we can consider to unsuspend.
You then have some time to clean up the account so we can release the
account from review.

If you do not comply, we can delete the data that should not have been
in the account at any time.

Late payments attract late fees. Unpaid invoices are subject to collection.

Suspended accounts not rectified within fifty days may be terminated without recourse.

We appreciate your cooperation to keep the platform in good order.

Kind regards,
Team BonoHost

I am very new to all of this website developing. I am pretty good with computers in a general sense so I think I can figure this out with some advice. But please as simply put as you can - I think it is the jargon that is melting my brain.

I have bought a domain with Cloudflare. I decided to get a domain from a separate website than I will host with as advice says this is safer.

I want to go through Zume for hosting. The website I want to create will be through Wordpress as it seems noob friendly, and it will only be for a small scale shop. Here's where I am confused:

1. To use my domain (without transferring it to Zume's registrar), do I choose the 'update name server'?
2. There is a 'WordPress lite' option for £3 a month. I have zero experience - Do I go with this option? There's also a Managed Word Press option and a Launch option... help?
3. Do I need to make the website before I buy the hosting?
4. Do the WordPress Lite and Launch options allow for a shop website?

Thanks in advance, I know these are probably dumb questions but I feel like the more I search around for my answers, the more confused I am.

TL;DR: have domains/websites where email is handled by GMail/Google Workspace on my server. Need to transfer them out and host somewhere else. What are the best options?

Long version: I have a few Wordpress websites that don't have much value to their owners, with the exception of email addresses attached to them. The email is handled by GMail/Google Workspace and have been for ages. I want to transfer them off my webserver somewhere else, where they will have their domain up and running and continue using their existing GMail service. The preference is the reliability of the service, these people rely on emails to do business, so that's what's important.

EDIT: Clarification (thanks, /u/KH-DanielP for your comment) - I would stay away from shared hosting, I was thinking some big folks, so that I can set things up without Wordpress (so, maybe a static page) and forget about them.

Thank you!

Hello dear friends

I opened up a digital store called tarliqo and using marketsy.ai as the digital platform.

Now the problem I'm facing is this:

I bought a domain on namecheap, and hosting plan on hostgator, so far I want to use the website builder from marketsy.ai and for the namecheap domain to be connected to the hosting from hostgator, I already did this but I'm not sure if I have done it correctly.

So far, what I want to happen is this:

Page design built on marketsy.ai

Domain on namecheap

Hosting the website on hostgator

Let me know if I can share some pictures with you guys or something, thanks!

Sorry for the bad title, but I don't know better how to say. I have a website on Infinityfree with the domain techtipps.rf.gd. I also have a sub domain which is iphone.techtipps.rf.gd. But I now want to make something like techtipps.rf.gd/about.html or the same without the .html. How can I actually do this?