In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

Oddly, the user-interface with Ecohosting is identical to that used by TSOhost, but looking at Companies House could not see any conection. There again, I could be missing something...

It's off-the-shelf webhosting software, many hosting companies use it instead of writing their own portal interface.

Just seen this of which I was not aware. TSOHost was really good in its day before it got taken over, thankfully I moved everything to HostXNow (formerly StableWebs) back in January 2021 and so far they haven't suffered the big corporate takeover nightmare that seems to befall all the good ones sooner or later.

I'm paid up until June 2025, unfortunately. However, two weeks ago I received another email. I had the 123 Reg one and the one about migrating my legacy Vidahost package to a new platform, which they still hadn't done.

They've told me they're cancelling my account and apparently be refunding me shortly (still waiting). Why?

Unfortunately, we were unable to migrate your hosting package. Our migration experts exhausted all options to migrate your hosting package successfully.

We will be turning off the old cPanel hosting platform on 12th September 2024. Your hosting package alongside any websites and hosted applications will stop functioning.

We apologise for the inconvenience this causes.

They even had the cheek to suggest I should sign up for one of their new cPanel packages.

Anyway, it's a blessing in disguise, if I can get my refund.

Not sure what their "migration experts" had trouble with - I've already migrated everything to another provider, which was completely automated and took 5 minutes

Just had a reminder regarding this today, have no intention of being part of No Daddy (as I prefer to call them) so I will look to move elsewhere.

Is the general consensus to keep hosting of e-mails, websites etc, separate from the domain host?

Thanks in advance.

I had a reminder yesterday. I had moved one of my email domains over to IONOS already as a tester (only I use it). The reminder triggered me to move the second domain (which members of my family use) - I was amazed that I put in the transfer and within about 30 minutes was able to go in and setup the email forwarding and it was all working (tested to ensure it had switched over by creating a rule I don't normally have and it worked fine). I am sure I have had experience in the past of it taking days to do a domain transfer, this was incredibly fast.

It does mean I am doubling paying for the overlap in domain registrations but worth it to be away from 1-2-3 Reg.

In reply to a post by ian72:

It does mean I am doubling paying for the overlap in domain registrations but worth it to be away from 1-2-3 Reg.

Any payment you make for domain renewal should extend your current subscription, and not overlap any existing period. Worth checking the expiry date to ensure this has happened.

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

In reply to a post by ian72:

It does mean I am doubling paying for the overlap in domain registrations but worth it to be away from 1-2-3 Reg.

Any payment you make for domain renewal should extend your current subscription, and not overlap any existing period. Worth checking the expiry date to ensure this has happened.

Thanks, hadn't realised that and now I look on the new registrar you are right and it has extended it by a year. I thought it was worth the cost to get out from 1-2-3Reg but turns out it didn't actually cost me anything

In reply to a post by CJT:

Is the general consensus to keep hosting of e-mails, websites etc, separate from the domain host?

Not required. I use Gandi the big french outfit (UK office https://www.gandi.net/en-GB) for my domains, and I host some email with MS365 and run other email and websites from my own cloud accounts. I have colleagues whom use Gandi for email hosting, and have had no problems in 5 years with them.

Nothing other than a satisified customer.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

I use Gandi

Ditto. They also have an excellent API which is useful for scripting things like IP address updates and DNSSEC keys: https://www.gandi.net/en-GB/solutions/api