Hi Terry, > The question here is if I migrate to another hosting company will I > have to cancel the current registration with Nominet or will the new > provider migrate my domain for me?
No, do not cancel. You can either prod Nominet to do it, https://www.nominet.uk/transferring-your-domain-name/, or you may find the new DNS-serving company will take steps on your behalf. > I have a lot of email on Ionos' servers and I'd like to take that with > me. (That includes all the mail for all my users which number a > gargantuan five.) https://guilhem.org/interimap may be useful; it keeps IMAP accounts synchronised; you could use it for a one-off transfer whilst both accounts are live. There are others, like http://imapsync.lamiral.info. > I'm pretty sure they are static Agreed. > even my image galleries, which were generated by a number of free > tools over 10 years ago, appear to be thumbnails statically linked to > the full-sized images. You can get better photo-collection generators now that still produce static results, but the HTML will contain Javascript to run in the user's browser to give a better interface. > I saw the website as the easiest part. My working directory for the > site resides on my hard drive, so I assumed that once I have the > domain set up with the new provider, I simply upload the site again > with FTP. Yes, though it may be more SSH based, e.g. SFTP or rsync over SSH. > > Andrews & Arnold are a well respected UK supplier of (pricey) > > broadband when you want quality. They also handle DNS, email, and > > web serving at good looking prices if you careful check whether you > > fit into their limits. https://www.aa.net.uk/etc/domains/ > > My broadband provider is Plusnet. Ionos only provide the domain > registration, web server and email hosting. I don't have any problems > with Plusnet, so I wasn't intending to change them. sorry, I just meant they have a good reputation in one field, ISP, so I'd expect their other offerings to be good. Worth checking that page. > What I really need is a company that will migrate everything to their > service rather like utility companies do :-) It's too messy to cope with all the vagaries of companies so it's left for you to do. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2020-02-04 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
