Ok....
A website comprises of three main things.

A) the domain name. This is the words www . mysite . com and the James@ mysite .com. Think of this as a PO Box address.... no spaces.
B) the hosting. This is the phsyical computer that the domain names points too.... think of this as a house.
C) the 'website', this is the code and configerations and assets.... this is the stuff that lives in the house.

You've just been made evicted, told to pack up your shit and leave. Your contract/deal will say if you own the PO Box so you can point it to your new house, and it'll say if you own the furniture inside the house. You more than likely do.

So what you need to do, is move house.... find some new hosting. If you can get "FTP Access", then you can get all the stuff out of the house and move it to the new place, that should be easy if the company is cooprative. They might even have a contingancy plan to do this for you (perhaps at a cost, or as a jesture of good will).

It's the same with the domain name (PO Box), you need to see who 'owns' it, and make it point to your new house (hosting). If you move your stuff in first, then it would be basicly seemless, although complicated sites with databases and stuff might the job harder (which I doubt you have). You'll have to re-set up your email addresses with your new hosting, but that shouldn't be a problem for anyone who knows what they're doing.

The whole thing can take about two hour's work split over two days, but only if the old landlord (the company who does your site currently) is co-oprative.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 18:28, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

That is absolutely superb and I feel a whole better, thanks
Right - my former landlords have got better paid employment elsewhere. They are co-operative, they're sorry to have let me down but they've gone for the bigger money.

Effectively, then, I can find another company who would take the whole thing on as a transfer? I'm sure that the old lot will be happy to pass it to a new host and one of my clients has an extremely good site. If there's a cost I'd meet it.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 18:41, Reply)

Exactly !
Now, one of the things is, there is no need to be excravigant with the hosting unless you're hitting at least a few hundred people an hour, and even then, you'd only need to start on the ladder. Someone like www.ukreg.com / www.fasthosts.com / 123reg.com would be more than good enough... the words you want to look for are "single site hosting" or the very base ones. They should be able to set it up, it would take them 1/4 of the time it would take me 'cus they know their way around the neighbourhood (so to speak).

In fact, tell me the following that you possibly know, and I'll find you a good hosting deal.
- How much traffic you get; how many people view the site every month.
- If you have a 'dynamic' site... can you update it yourself without going into any code or having to 'ftp' ?
- How many email addresses you use that go to different places (eg, "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" going to the same place = 1 address, for the perpouses of setting it up).
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 18:58, Reply)

Now you're bordering on technical
-Traffic - no idea at all - that's not really how my business works so I've never worried/wondered about it. Maybe I ought to.

-No I can't update my site myself.

-One email address. I could consider more but this is getting into areas that I don't understand.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:07, Reply)

You could always look this stuff up on the internet
it's all there and more
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:09, Reply)

I could
But it wouldn't be clearly explained to me. There'd be an assumption that I knew stuff.

Gonz is making it very clear.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:12, Reply)

Shush, I'm trolling. This whole thing is gonna cost him millions.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:18, Reply)

Cool
Traffic is actually very key to knowing how well your buisness is doing, think of it as not knowing how many people walk into your shop. Whoever you get to do it, get them to install "Google Analytics", it'll take them less than an hour. It'll tell you a lot more than you need to know, and it'll be information overload, but its well sign posted. It'll also help point you in the right direction if you wish to expand with advertisment.

Cool, I'm gonna go on a limb here and say your site is 'static'... does the links end in ".html" / ".htm" ? The move will be easy. You do need that FTP access though, or even better "A zip file containing everything to do with the site; including PSDs if available", they'll know what I'm talking about, PSDs are photoshop files. A zip file is something that contains many other files, like a folder.

Cool, no wories, what I always do is point everything to one place, so [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]..... the bit before the @ being irrelivent; it'll still get to me. How do you view your emails? Do you use something like Outlook, Thunderbird, Google Mail, Windows Live (etc) ?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:17, Reply)

I'm lost now
Be gazzed.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:19, Reply)

Cool =)

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:20, Reply)

I honestly don't know
This is my website:-

www.sheridanlandlordservices.co.uk/

I don't know how it works - I get my business primarily by knocking on doors and selling me and my product. I'm a very good salesman (we've talked about this before) - I have no idea whatsoever about the on-line presence of this.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:26, Reply)

Hmm.
I meant to Gaz that.

Oh well, it'll test the contact page.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:27, Reply)

See gaz =)

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:52, Reply)