[thelist] moving webhosting and losing all the old emails....

[Nan Harbison]

Thanks everyone! 

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From: ajdipaola at gmail.com [mailto:ajdipaola at gmail.com] On Behalf Of UIT DEV
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 4:22 PM
To: nan at nanharbison.com; thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] moving webhosting and losing all the old emails....

"...but this domain name is registered at register.com until 2014, so I
don't want to make them pay to move it over."

Just so you know, a domain isnt registered for some amount of time TO a
particular registrar itself.  Its registered with the dot-com registry via
the registrar (in this case Register.com).  If you move the domain over to
another registrar, it will keep its 2014 registration date.  In fact, I
believe Godaddy will add 1 year to your registration date (2015) if you
transfer to them and I think the transfer cost is 6.99 or something.  Also,
godaddy allows for dedicated IP addresses and complete DNS control.  I have
a couple of site hosted with them.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 14:03, Nan Harbison <nan at nanharbison.com> wrote:
>
>
> Anthony - I usually use Godaddy, but this domain name is registered at 
> register.com until 2014, so I don't want to make them pay to move it over.
> So that leaves moving everything to register.com, and they will give 
> us a dedicated IP address so we can be looking at the site before 
> changing the DNS. Godaddy doesn't exactly allow that, although they 
> let you use yourwebsite.previewdns.com or something to look at it.
> I now can't reach anyone in their office, I think they are gone for 
> the weekend, drat, I wanted to get going on this.
>
> And Jeremy, I don't think I have root access, But I will check as soon 
> as I can catch anyone in this office! So which one, IMAP or POP3 means 
> your email stays in Outlook if you switch hosting?
>
> Thanks guys!
> Nan
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Baratta [mailto:anthony at baratta.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 1:48 PM
> To: nan at nanharbison.com; thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] moving webhosting and losing all the old emails....
>
> Nan Harbison wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I am working with a company on a new website, and we are 
> > contemplating moving the hosting over to register.com, where the 
> > domain name is registered for several more years, and they are a 
> > nonprofit, so trying to
> save money.
> >
> > Of course the huge problem is that their email is connected to their 
> > hosting, so as far as I know, when we switch over, all their old 
> > email will be lost. Is that true? And if it is true, is there a way 
> > to get all their important email off the old server? Some use 
> > Outlook, and I think the email on Outlook will not be affected, is that
right?
>
> What were they using before, combination Outlook and WebMail? IMAP? 
> Get everyone on a POP3 client (Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird) 
> and have them download their mail (or IMAP and move all the mail locally).
>
> Then when you move Mail Servers you still have your mail.
>
> Another way would be to move them all to GMail accounts and setup 
> GMail to download the mail from their olde server via POP3.
>
> BTW - I've had very good experiences with GoDaddy, registration and
hosting.
> Very cheap too.
>
>
> --
> Anthony Baratta
>
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> human mind to correlate all its contents.
> - H. P. Lovecraft
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