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There should be no SEO impact moving a site, unless performance drops off. Technically, most sites can be moved quickly & easily. An ecommerce site needs a holding page put up so orders aren't placed while it's being moved, unless so few orders are taken that you can add them manually to the moved site. DNS changes officially take upto 48 hours but usually just a few. If it's a static site then visitors won't see any interruption, just remember not to make any changes to site content until it's settled down. A lot of hosts now provide Let's Encrypt free SSL certs, I'd choose one of those.

Domain expiry is a trigger point that sees them appear on sites like https://www.expireddomains.net/domain-lists/. I assume the expiry information includes an email address which they add to their spam lists.

Looks like you are hosted by Compila, now part of Vidahost, and if you scroll down to the hosting packages they list on their Compila announcement, the full features suggest they provide the free Let's Encrypt SSL. https://www.vidahost.com/welcome/compila

Found this on an old Prestashop thread; "Fixed mine at least, with a little help I found that if you scroll far enough down on the SEO & URL's Page within the Backend>Preferences Section there is a URL's bit where you can punch in the domain name you want to use instead of the IP Address." https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/97471-ip-address-of-server-showing-in-browser-bar/

It all takes some configuration on the hosting to set the wheels in motion, however you deploy the site, and the more hosts are used, the more hassle for you. If the site consists of files only (no DB), I'd stick to getting the credentials and using filezilla to do it for them.

If I understand the concept, you are looking for a service that pushes a templated website to a new hosting package so it's ready for your client to just fill in the content? Interesting concept but I'm not aware that service exists, not even to push a base install of Wordpress onto a new hosting platform without some credentials. If you are going to let them use their own hosting, you'll need their logins. Why not provide a bundled service with the hosting as well as the template? That would make it easier for you to manage in the future and an opportunity to upsell maintenance packages.

The IP you've provided is reported by GoDaddy as being located in Scottsville, Arizona - http://viewdns.info/iplocation/?ip=160.153.16.19, same place as your current hosting ( brucefarms.co.uk resolves to 173.201.63.128) Physical location may be different.

Depending how long this has been going on, the original host may still hold your site. Not all hosts delete sites as soon as they're cancelled, we suspend and leave them a period of time in case the client changes their mind, not unusual at all. They may also have their own backups going back even longer and could restore from those for you.

On a bad day, it's not unusual to see an attempt every few seconds and when they find a genuine wp-login page, that can ramp up to several per second. I know you don't have a login page but for anyone reading this that does, Fail2Ban is worth looking into. It monitors the hosting log files for failed logins, malicious activity, etc so it's independent of the hosted application.

The ZX81 was 1K and everyone was mad when they bought the 16K RAM pack and found that it turned off the internal 1K. The first IBM PC I worked with was 16K with 168K 5 1/4 floppy drives yet we still managed to compile a statistical forecasting package in Fortran IV.

Depending on the implementation, LE probably won't auto-renew. However, nothing to stop the hosts scripting an auto-renewal process so their clients don't have to worry about it

Check it out using https://tools.pingdom.com/ - main page 20.5MB. Not suprisingly, it's some larger images that loading slowly alongside the 14.3MB mp4 file.

If it's a coat of arms on the flag then it is granted to the town/city by the Royal Coat of Arms and usually very heavily protected against commercial use without permission from the council (and payment). I only know because our local council forgot to renew theirs and it made the local news when they realised and renewed it. Having renewed it, they stopped people using it without permission.

Whichever nameservers are used, they need to hold all the DNS records. If all you are changing is the domain, you could stick with Company A's nameservers and just update the A record to point to the website. That's the least hassle option. If you switch to Company B's nameservers, you need to replicate the current DNS records on their nameservers before switching.

You even managed to get in part of our strap line

Please do

Thanks for the mention. Our servers are in Manchester and we're in Lancaster, next to the canal, and a pub.

First of my own, ZX81 then Spectrum, Atari 800 and Amiga. Work related in the PC world and not ICL mainframes, one of the first IBM PC - twin floppy drives and 10MB Tallgrass hard drive formatted 5MB CP/M, 5MB DOS.

I had a similar error a while ago at home, my AV said a site was dodgy with the favicon message but others, with different AV software, could get to it fine. Which AV are you using? Have you asked anyone else with a different AV to check? I'm fairly sure I was using AVG at the time.

I'm not so sure changing the registrar doesn't touch DNS records with some registrars. It's only happened once recently but immediately after a transfer where the domain used the registrar's nameservers, the DNS records were deleted. Before any domain changes, make a note of the DNS records so they can be recreated.

Agree with Newman that it appears to be a website form which can be stopped with decent captcha. If you're getting spam through direct emails, there's various options available; Redirect your emails to a gmail account, gmail's quite good at detecting spam. Use a spam tool on your hosting account e.g. Spamassassin Try a 3rd party filtering service such as http://www.spamihilator.com/en or http://www.mailwasher.net/ Good luck!

Hi all, with the release of the Magento 2 Beta scheduled for December this year, we've created a weekly updated demo of the current development code so you can sample Magento 2 prior to its release. Enjoy! http://www.nublue.co.uk/blog/magento-2-0-demo-admin-access-sample-data-updated-weekly/

Hi Roothost (hopefully not your real name! ) We do a lot of VPS hosting and would be happy to talk about migration options. Some reviews of our hosting customer service can be seen here: http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews164209.html and our VPS packages are all listed here: https://www.nublue.co.uk/web-hosting/vps Let me know if you want to chat Mike

That does sound a little strange, we certainly don't charge extra for email services on our VPS plans.

lol, just seen it was for the year, I thought it was £5.99 a month! I take it back. That is incredibly cheap and the catch will be they don’t make any money! So one day when they get bopred and disappear and you realise there is no phone number on the website and no company registration number, you'll be stuck.