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I have been a customer of TSO host for many years, they are doing a
"virgin media".
Putting the price up for older customers to a point where I have to
pay £80 per year for having my own domain. I just want a UK
(preferably) based I can use my own domain and e mail account.
They must have good customer service such as telephone support.
I use Microsoft Outlook 2019 on my main computer a mini tower.

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On 15/06/2024 19:40, Dan wrote:

I have been a customer of TSO host for many years, they are doing a
"virgin media".
Putting the price up for older customers to a point where I have to
pay £80 per year for having my own domain. I just want a UK
(preferably) based I can use my own domain and e mail account.
They must have good customer service such as telephone support.
I use Microsoft Outlook 2019 on my main computer a mini tower.

I have been using NameCheap for nearly 10 years but I also use my own
VPS hosted on Contabo.

<https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared/>

Get 3 years hosting to fix the introductory price for new users. It is
£1.56 per month plus VAT at 20%. No telephone support but good chat/forums that I have never used.

VPS for you may not be ideal because you need to create and manage your
own server. However, it gives you some independence in that you can
create 100s of websites some for tests!!

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On 6/15/2024 2:40 PM, Dan wrote:

I have been a customer of TSO host for many years, they are doing a
"virgin media".
Putting the price up for older customers to a point where I have to
pay £80 per year for having my own domain. I just want a UK
(preferably) based I can use my own domain and e mail account.
They must have good customer service such as telephone support.
I use Microsoft Outlook 2019 on my main computer a mini tower.

I'm registered with Namecheap. I'm hosted on Knownhost.
That's about $12/month. It sounds like TSO is hosting only.
In any case, I don't know any cheap deals to also get
good email. Many cheap hosts don't even have email service.
Or they may only provide incoming. I don't know if there's such
a thing as hosting with no website, where they're just providing
email hosting.

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XPost: uk.comp.homebuilt, alt.comp.os.windows-11

Dan wrote:

Mythic Beasts looks good, far cheaper than TSO and I would like to
know, if I would like to transfer my web site to Mythic Beasts, what
is the downtime?

first, upload the contents to MB (make a small change so you can tell
the difference between TSO and MB versions)

second, change the DNS records for www and email MX/SPF

As TSO said they would immediately terminate my web site.

third, when it's working, tell TSO

out of interest, immediately based on what/when?

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On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 07:55:49 -0000 (UTC), Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
wrote:

Mythic Beasts

Mythic Beasts looks good, far cheaper than TSO and I would like to
know, if I would like to transfer my web site to Mythic Beasts, what
is the downtime?
As TSO said they would immediately terminate my web site.

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On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:50:18 +0100, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

Dan wrote:

if I would like to transfer my web site to Mythic Beasts, what
is the downtime?

MB recommendations to avoid downtime

<https://www.mythic-beasts.com/support/domains/transfer-no-downtime>

Looks good and thanks a lot to all.

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Dan wrote:

if I would like to transfer my web site to Mythic Beasts, what
is the downtime?

MB recommendations to avoid downtime

<https://www.mythic-beasts.com/support/domains/transfer-no-downtime>

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Andy Burns wrote:

first, upload the contents to MB (make a small change so you can tell
the difference between TSO and MB versions)

second, change the DNS records for www and email MX/SPF

second-and-a half, change IPS tag for domain to "MYTHIC-BEASTS",
transfer domain to them, set the www/mx/spf etc NS records again on MB's
system

third, when it's working, tell TSO

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   I'm registered with Namecheap. I'm hosted on Knownhost.
That's about $12/month. It sounds like TSO is hosting only.
In any case, I don't know any cheap deals to also get
good email. Many cheap hosts don't even have email service.
Or they may only provide incoming. I don't know if there's such
a thing as hosting with no website, where they're just providing
email hosting.

LCN (= Low Cost Names (lcn.com)) will register a domain for you and if
you retain the registration through them you get a few mailboxes spread
out over 100MB ( dont know the exact details)

You can connect by POP3 or IMAP

You can pay some extra if you want them to do hosting for you, but its
optional

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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

first, upload the contents to MB (make a small change so you can tell
the difference between TSO and MB versions)

second, change the DNS records for www and email MX/SPF

second-and-a half, change IPS tag for domain to "MYTHIC-BEASTS",
transfer domain to them, set the www/mx/spf etc NS records again on MB's system

first-and-a-half: change your 'hosts file' (look up how to do it for your
OS) to point to the new server to test your website. eg if your domain is example.com and your new server has the IP 12.34.56.78 you'd add:

12.34.56.78 www.example.com example.com

in your hosts file. Then your browser will talk to the new server when you type https://www.example.com/

Test out the site, if all is good then put the hosts file back to how it was before and you can proceed to step 2.

Theo

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In article <smnr6j5ap2iho0v6m6ebjfk1tidh0ir63p@4ax.com>, Dan wrote...

I have been a customer of TSO host for many years, they are doing a
"virgin media".
Putting the price up for older customers to a point where I have to
pay £80 per year for having my own domain. I just want a UK
(preferably) based I can use my own domain and e mail account.
They must have good customer service such as telephone support.
I use Microsoft Outlook 2019 on my main computer a mini tower.

Liquidsix is excellent in all regards - used them for years. No phone support, but support is quick and thorough.
https://www.liquidsix.com/

--

Phil, London

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On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:16:41 +0100, Philip Herlihy <PhillipHerlihy@SlashDevNull.invalid> wrote:

In article <smnr6j5ap2iho0v6m6ebjfk1tidh0ir63p@4ax.com>, Dan wrote...

I have been a customer of TSO host for many years, they are doing a
"virgin media".
Putting the price up for older customers to a point where I have to
pay £80 per year for having my own domain. I just want a UK
(preferably) based I can use my own domain and e mail account.
They must have good customer service such as telephone support.
I use Microsoft Outlook 2019 on my main computer a mini tower.

Liquidsix is excellent in all regards - used them for years. No phone support,
but support is quick and thorough.
https://www.liquidsix.com/

Again, thanks a lot.

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