Register1 site dead?

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randlemarcus

13,522 posts

231 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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Right then, the VDS expiry is coming up. I've pretty much moved away from the VDS, and onto Google Apps. So, recommend me a domain parking lot where I can control the DNS, and they won't lock me in forever.

illmonkey

18,199 posts

198 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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site went down at 15:32. 45 minutes. frown

schueymcfee

1,573 posts

265 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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SGirl said:
Ah, good. That means my mail to TSOhost has just been sent. biggrin
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I have been speaking to Akin at TSO Host most of the week and he has been very good at answering my questions. They'll move my sites no problem, and with there being 50 should take about a week including databases - they then give you a test URL to make sure you're happy before you change your DNS settings.

illmonkey

18,199 posts

198 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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schueymcfee said:
SGirl said:
Ah, good. That means my mail to TSOhost has just been sent. biggrin
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I have been speaking to Akin at TSO Host most of the week and he has been very good at answering my questions. They'll move my sites no problem, and with there being 50 should take about a week including databases - they then give you a test URL to make sure you're happy before you change your DNS settings.
What's the deal with moving the DB. Mine changes frequently so can't take a copy, do tests etc then go live. I'd need to stop the old one I suppose.

eps

6,297 posts

269 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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Back on as well!

Brother D

3,720 posts

176 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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That's not great. I have a couple of business websites and over 20 domains there... I didn't realise the company had been sold!

Time to migrate away I think...


Accelebrate

5,252 posts

215 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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Can anyone recommend a domain registrar who offer .com contact privacy for no/minimal extra cost?

schueymcfee

1,573 posts

265 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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illmonkey said:
What's the deal with moving the DB. Mine changes frequently so can't take a copy, do tests etc then go live. I'd need to stop the old one I suppose.
I'm planning on letting them move the DB and sites, check out all is working then stop for 10/20mins, get them to take another copy of the DB, another test and then switch DNS.

Anything that gets caught in DNS caching I'll just manually migrate across.

I'll probably do it at about 4 in the morning.

schueymcfee

1,573 posts

265 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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Accelebrate said:
Can anyone recommend a domain registrar who offer .com contact privacy for no/minimal extra cost?
GoDaddy do it for about $5.50 (£3?) a year and is instant.

Accelebrate

5,252 posts

215 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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Hmm, not a big GoDaddy fan. I moved my domains from them to R1 in 2005ish after getting fed up with the terrible control panel and constant up-selling.

TonyRPH

12,972 posts

168 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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Accelebrate said:
Can anyone recommend a domain registrar who offer .com contact privacy for no/minimal extra cost?
Cleverhosting


Accelebrate

5,252 posts

215 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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Thanks, do they offer domain privacy and glue records?

TonyRPH

12,972 posts

168 months

Thursday 30th January 2014
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Accelebrate said:
Thanks, do they offer domain privacy and glue records?
They do.

B19GRR

1,980 posts

256 months

Friday 31st January 2014
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Both my domain names and hosting is up for renewal at the end of April. I experience zero traffic to my site so it's not end of the world if the host goes down but I do use my domain email addresses regularly so that's annoying.

Does TSOHost have a better webmail interface than Squirrelmail (laughable)? I have set up my BT-Yahoo email to access my R1 emails but that seems very flakey, get a bunch appearing once or twice a week whereas if I log into squirrelmail I can see plenty there that aren't picked up. I'm guessing that's just crappy Yahoo mail's fault though.

Cheers,
Rob

surveyor

17,819 posts

184 months

Friday 31st January 2014
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Google Apps. £3 a month for the email.

cuneus

5,963 posts

242 months

Friday 31st January 2014
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I have my email domain with TSOHost and forward everything to another gmail address

eps

6,297 posts

269 months

Friday 31st January 2014
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B19GRR said:
Both my domain names and hosting is up for renewal at the end of April. I experience zero traffic to my site so it's not end of the world if the host goes down but I do use my domain email addresses regularly so that's annoying.

Does TSOHost have a better webmail interface than Squirrelmail (laughable)? I have set up my BT-Yahoo email to access my R1 emails but that seems very flakey, get a bunch appearing once or twice a week whereas if I log into squirrelmail I can see plenty there that aren't picked up. I'm guessing that's just crappy Yahoo mail's fault though.

Cheers,
Rob
BT / BT Yahoo is a right PITA it gets very picky about what it will and will not connect to and seems to like forgetting that it can actually connect to other mailboxes. I struggled to connect my Parents-in-law who have BT as an ISP - which took way longer than it should have. All done now though.

Same for me as well - no real hosting, but have got multiple mailboxes which up until recently were rock solid.

Accelebrate

5,252 posts

215 months

Friday 31st January 2014
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Zoho Mail is a good free Google Apps alternative...

https://www.zoho.com/mail/

cuneus

5,963 posts

242 months

Friday 31st January 2014
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Accelebrate said:
Zoho Mail is a good free Google Apps alternative...

https://www.zoho.com/mail/
You might want to investigate the limitations and decide whether they matter

Fletch79

1,641 posts

197 months

Friday 31st January 2014
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I buy and control all my domains through wnom direct ... You should find it quite easy to get a retail account and shouldn't be to hard to get a reseller account