Web hosting, domain migration, etc.

[czar]

Previously, I had registered my personal domain with GoDaddy and forwarded it to web space provided by my university. As I am no longer employed by said university (and plan on moving to a few different positions in the next few years). I would like to migrate the domain from being forward-only at GoDaddy to a registrar/hosting service.

I use ICDSoft (https://www.icdsoft.com/) for my "business" web site (I make a few hundred on it after you subtract hosting costs, hence the quotes) for $72/year (including domain registration). I am pleased with their uptime and the few times I have needed customer service, they have been reasonably accommodating.

That said, my personal website needs little in the way of bandwidth and that might be overkill. I could probably use 1-2 GB of storage. I am way, WAY out of the game regarding what services/cost are reasonable these days.

Can I do better than $72/year for these services? If yes, does anyone have any recommendations? One perk that isn't necessary but would be nice is SSH/SFTP access where I can hook up a public/private key to allow me to upload diagnostics from a project I run on a supercomputing cluster.

Also, how do I go about migrating my domain from GoDaddy? Do I sign up with a new host, ask to migrate the domain, and they handle it?

 

[MentalDisabldLst]

I use NameCheap for domain registration, hosting, and basic CPanel functions.  Check them out, see if they're closer to what you need.
 
GoDaddy blows - they're mostly owned by private equity these days, so their only goal is sucking every last dime out of you.

 

[canderson]

I use NameCheap for my domains and HostGator for most of my accounts (and recommend them to clients usually). ICDSoft is quite nice as well, I have a few sites with them.

 

[VTSox]

Can you host a second site/domain on your business account?  

 

[czar]

Thanks for the replies.

I use NameCheap for domain registration, hosting, and basic CPanel functions.  Check them out, see if they're closer to what you need.
 
GoDaddy blows - they're mostly owned by private equity these days, so their only goal is sucking every last dime out of you.

Yeah, GoDaddy is something awful. I actually should have moved a few years ago, but I bought the domain for 5 years or something and was just forwarding so I was pretty lazy about it.
 

I use NameCheap for my domains and HostGator for most of my accounts (and recommend them to clients usually). ICDSoft is quite nice as well, I have a few sites with them.

Someone at work recommended HostGator. Looks like they have like a $50/year plan, but I need to see how barebones that is.
  

Can you host a second site/domain on your business account?

I asked ICDSoft a few years back and they said they would not host two domain names under one account. They said I could point/mask/forward multiple ones to whatever pages I want, but I think that's a fairly ugly solution if I'm going to host myself (forwarding isn't a huge issue if my employer is hosting it). I'll have to try again and double check.

 

[czar]

Man, ICDSoft responds to tickets fast.

No on multiple domains, but 20% discount if I register as a reseller and then "buy" through myself.

For an extra $60/year (after discount), might be worth doing that...