# Need help to move my domain name to another site

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-move-my-domain-name-to-another-site/832499>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 13, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-move-my-domain-name-to-another-site/832499 "2019-04-13T16:25:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Razncain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@Razncain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Razncain)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-move-my-domain-name-to-another-site/832499/1 "2019-04-13T16:25:27Z")

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I haven’t been happy with my present host, and it’s coming up for renewel, so want to see if I can hire a doper to do this for me. Not sure who else to trust with this. So naturally, a long-standing doper would be preferred. If you can’t trust a doper, who can you trust, right? 🙂

A few sites show how this is fairly straightforward and easy, maybe, but my time is limited, and I seen where most charge about $150.00 or so do this, and if this is about right, it would be worth it to me.

Have a particular good host site in mind? I found this [six month old thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=860997&highlight=move+site) recommending that had these names come up: digital Ocean, urljet, Dreamhost, 1and1, among others. I was thinking about GoDaddy’s until I read that thread, a few weren’t happy with them even though they are very affordable at something like $10.00 a month, I think many charge just that for a basic website which is what I got. GoDaddy’s also has a counter which shows how many have been to your site, my present host doesn’t even offer that.

My site is very basic, would like to find a host where I could go and edit on occasion with my prices and possibly pics if needed, and a counter. Would also like to stay on the front page of search engines when people search for my particular business, it took nearly a year from my present host to be able to do this, when others seem to find hosts that can do that for them much quicker. This part, I don’t understand at all, but hopefully you do.

Any tips, suggestions and recommendations appreciated, and in particular if you would like to do this.

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-move-my-domain-name-to-another-site/832499/2 "2019-04-13T16:42:21Z")

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