Transferring website & email addresses to zero cost options???

By : Forum Member
Published 2nd April 2015 |
Read latest comment - 7th April 2015

Hi All

Would be interested please in any advice / thoughts you can offer.  I've raised this topic briefly with my hosting company already but haven't yet followed up the conversation.   

I'm almost completely retired now  and intend to be "even more so" after July this year.  I may potter about doing the odd bit of careers counselling for someone who refers him or herself (or is referred by a past client) but no more than that .... and probably less than that .  What I'm still wondering about is what I do with my (commercially hosted) company web site and associated email addresses.  I'm not keen on paying commercial rates to keep the web site and email addresses live but I'd be perfectly happy with a kind of shadowy presence if that's possible. 

I'm not sure I'd want to sell the website / domain name to another organisation even if they had commercial value (which they're unlikely to have).   I haven't done any marketing or updating for the last 3 years or so (probably longer).

Any helpful suggestions please? 


Linda
CareersPartnershipUK
Comments

Well what do you pay now for hosting?


indizine
indizine

12 months domain name plus hosting = £144.  Not a fortune I know but  .... 


Linda
CareersPartnershipUK

You can look into parking your domain name INFO ,or your other option would be to move it to a really cheap hosting, you can get really cheap places where it would cost you around £3.25 per month to host your website..

Although if you are really intent on retiring (lucky you ) and don't really want the website I would put the domain up for sale as it may be worth something to someone. I know you said you don't want to sell.. I suppose it's a difficult question as I will not sell my domain at any cost 


Thanks,
Andy-C | Pewter World

Eek, yeah that's a lot for a standard brochure site. I only charge £60 a year for hosting (my customers renew their domains themselves at £8.38 for 2 years with 123-Reg.

Vidahost are cheap too. Depends really what you want from a provider.


indizine
indizine

Yup agree with Indizine, does seem like you are paying over the odds.

If you just want simple tick over mode, you can get some basic hosting from between £50 and £60 per year. Ezpz hosting are another alternative, cheap and cheerful. 

I use a mix of 123-reg and uk2.net for hosting. UK2.net shows your domain as £7.99 per year, normally gets cheaper if you renew for 2,3 years etc.

Who ever you go with, it will be a lot cheaper than you are paying now


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