I thought I’d share my story… and a recommendation about web hosts and domain registrations… As I said, I was with GoDanica for years. When their performance tumbled to dialup speeds I looked around and found a good deal at Ipage. Good reviews and they would handle my domain for free. So I moved everything to them with like 3 years of domain registration for free. In the 6 months that I stayed with them, it seemed like they were down more than up…. Horrible…
So, I moved on to Lunarpages. They were good… Until they went down for 3 weeks and lost hundreds of our emails….
I couldn’t even get a temporary site up… So, needless to say, when they got their servers running again I moved to InMotion where I have been since. They have been very good.
But… In the midst of all this, I had a serious hack of my email address. I was getting 400+ spam emails a day. I finally had to change email addresses. Something I have only done one other time in my life. It is a real pain….
So, life is going along and suddenly my site goes down. I call InMotion tech support and after searching, they found that my domain name had been locked and abandoned….. Ipage had my old email address and no way to get ahold of me.
Registering a domain is kind of a set it and forget it process…. So, they couldn’t send me a bill and consequently shut down my domain. It was a HUGE PITA to get my domain back and if memory serves it cost me around $100 in special fees…. Since then, I will always keep my domain registration with my webhost… no matter how much it costs….
Greg