I've seen renew contracts getting cheaper, not the other way. Moore's law at work. If your provider is asking for more, change the provider. Copy all content from one site to the other, put an entry on /etc/hosts for your domain, pointing to the new IP, and test everything. Before the move, change the TTL for your domains for a small interval (around 5 minutes). One of two days later, when the DNS changes had propagated and your tests passed, change the DNS records pointing to the new IP and restore the TTL to the old value. Why change the TTL twice? The first time is to tell every DNS server, cache and client that a change is imminent. When you do the change, very few clients will have the old IP on cache, as the record expires fast. The second change is to bring things back to normal. On Oct 30, 2017 08:39, "o1bigtenor via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: Greetings I bought web hosting and registered 2 domains with a company. The domains need to be renewed annually but the hosting is on a three year rotation. The renewal is going to be about 2.7 x the original hosting contract. Is this normal? What do you of those that have a personal or small business website do - - - move before renewal - - - or ????? I have managed to setup a webserver here at home. I tried to use one of my domains - - - that doesn't work because dns resolves to my host and not here. Any suggestions on what and/or how to setup things to experiment here before I go live with something? (I want to try things like horde's webmail groupware (Have it installed locally already) and other tools in the running of the business.) TIA Dee --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk