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Need to find affordable webhosting/email

1,005 248 February 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Not entirely sure if I should post this here or in Deal Search. Currently have hosting for 2 domains + email and email forwards with Host Gator (domains are with Name.com). HG raised their prices massively in the past few years and I need a cheaper option. The websites are currently blank, but I do want to reopen the websites eventually. The email is the more important, one is my main email for anything but financial/health, and the other one is my business PayPal account. Plus I have several semi-important forwards set up. So my question is suggestions for an alternative provider, and secondly how difficult is it to move the emails? All but one are set up with POP3 so they're downloaded locally, but I'm not sure what swapping is going to do to the IMAP. I don't need to actually move the emails to the new IMAP server, I just need to keep them. At the worst, I could POP3 it, though I'm hoping Mailbird is storing them locally (though I don't know what happens if it re-syncs with a new account that's empty). I'm assuming any good new hosting provider can help. It's probably too late, since I waited until the last minute and only have 2 weeks left, but maybe this is something I can figure out in a week.

I want a provider that's consistently priced too. An intro deal would be nice, but I don't want to get $50 for the first year and have it go up to $250 like HG did and have to move again.
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02-10-2025 at 06:24 PM.
02-10-2025 at 06:24 PM.
You don't have to register your domain though your webhost, you can do it independently and even prepay for the domain years in advance. Cloudfare's registar service doesn't mark up domain prices and allows you to forward emails. https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/ I've also seen https://porkbun.com/ recommended as a registrar.

There are a number of services that just provide email for your domain if you don't currently need hosting. Typically, these bill per user (per email address), Microsoft's service is $36/yr/user, Google is a bit more, and Zoho is one of the cheaper options. https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html

As for hosting with email options include (size / number of email accounts can vary quite a bit):
https://www.hostinger.com/web-hosting (introductory 4yr rate)
https://www.hetzner.com/webhosting/
https://www.a2hosting.com/web-hosting/ (introductory 3yr rate)
https://www.inmotionhosting.com/shared-hosting (can choose 3yr intro rate)
https://hostneva.com/ (dirt cheap starter tier)

Since you're using POP3 for your email and everything's local it should be fairly easy. Most mail clients will have an option to take an account offline if needed. If you want to, you should be able to drag and drop emails in your mail client between accounts / mailboxes if you want to copy some recent mail over to an IMAP folder with a new provider.
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02-10-2025 at 07:01 PM.
02-10-2025 at 07:01 PM.
Quote from jkee :
You don't have to register your domain though your webhost, you can do it independently and even prepay for the domain years in advance.
I pulled the domain from HG to Name because they almost lost it because it was registered through a subdivision of their company that eventually ceased to exist. Should have bailed on them then. It's the hosting that HG got greedy on. It went from $40 to $90 then $230+ fees, which isn't inflation, just greed.
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There are a number of services that just provide email for your domain if you don't currently need hosting.
I need both hosting and the ability to make emails and forwards on the fly.
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As for hosting with email options include (size / number of email accounts can vary quite a bit):
I'll have to research this list, hostinger keeps coming up when I asked in other places though.
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Since you're using POP3 for your email and everything's local it should be fairly easy.
I don't have a lot of email addresses and forwards set up but it's enough that I was hoping there'd be some way to just migrate it with all settings intact (cPanel). I can do it manually if I have to. But I like to think there has to be a faster/easier way to transfer if, say, you're a small company with 50-100 employees.
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02-12-2025 at 05:44 PM.
02-12-2025 at 05:44 PM.
Quote from FenrirCo :
I pulled the domain from HG to Name because they almost lost it because it was registered through a subdivision of their company that eventually ceased to exist. Should have bailed on them then. It's the hosting that HG got greedy on. It went from $40 to $90 then $230+ fees, which isn't inflation, just greed.I need both hosting and the ability to make emails and forwards on the fly.I'll have to research this list, hostinger keeps coming up when I asked in other places though.I don't have a lot of email addresses and forwards set up but it's enough that I was hoping there'd be some way to just migrate it with all settings intact (cPanel). I can do it manually if I have to. But I like to think there has to be a faster/easier way to transfer if, say, you're a small company with 50-100 employees.
You also said you aren't currently using the webhosting, but that's still likely the easier route.

I think there are some options that probably to allow you to import / export email configuration. You'd want to research that. I'd also suggest you make your own spreadsheet backup just in case.
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