On Sunday, 19 January 2020 14:51:54 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Relatively easy, depending. :-)
I was hoping you wouldn't say 'depending' ;-) > Control of the domain-name is key. Specifying the DNS nameservers for > it is the starting point of all other references; they're observable > with whois(1). Being able to edit the DNS definitions for the domain at > its nameservers lets you control where email is sent and what domain > names exist, e.g. for when a web browser wants an IP address to contact > for a URL. From whois hadrian-way.co.uk: Name servers: These (not unexpectedly) are owned by Ionos. 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? > For email, it's nice if there are multiple servers willing to accept > email for your domain. That might be done by multiple DNS MX records, > seen with ‘dig -t mx example.com.’, or by having a load balancer at the > single IP address that sits in front of multiple servers. Either way, > if one server is down then your email gets delivered to another without > the sender backing off for a while before retrying. It looks like Ionos provides two: ;; ANSWER SECTION: Apart from that, 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.) > The web hosting is potentially the most tricky part. Is your current > site just ‘static’ files that can just be shipped by a web server to any > browser that comes calling? Or do some of them contain code that the > server must run to produce the content to deliver to the browser, e.g. > PHP or Python. I'm pretty sure they are static; 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. 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. > If the former, then hosting is simpler. I think you can even have > GitHub serve the pages for free under your domain name. > https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/configuring-a-cu > stom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site I'm really looking for a direct replacement of what I have at Ionos. > 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. > Another option is to rent a virtual machine where you are in total > control its Linux installation. Then you can use Ubuntu, say, to > install and configure a web server like Apache, nginx, or > https://caddyserver.com. There are many suppliers; BitFolk are in the > UK and start at £6.49/month, https://bitfolk.com/plans.html. Or Digital > Ocean are popular USA suppliers starting at $5/month, though you may > need a $10/month one, https://www.digitalocean.com. That would mean I would have to do all admin ;-( What I really need is a company that will migrate everything to their service rather like utility companies do :-) -- Terry Coles -- 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
