Moving a site

[Dickydongle]

I have had a reasonably successful ands popular web site that is hosted by Freeserve (now Wanadoo).

Decibel Dungeon (http://www.decdun.fsnet.co.uk)

This weekend, I tired to update the site as usual but couldn't log in. After a long search around the Wanadoo site, I found something to the effect that sites on the Freeserve webspace will not be supported after the end of 2004. Suffice to say that despite all my efforts, I am unable to update the site at all.

I am currently with Tiscali and have decided to put the site on the webspace that I have with them. I have now uploaded all the files but wnat I want to know is if I have to submit the site to the search engines again? For the last few years, my site has come very high in the Google rankings and I would obviously like to keep it there!

It's also a shane that I cannot put some kind of forwarding message on the existing site!

[renegade600]

Unfortunately your site will drop in Googles rankings. As far as finding it in the searches, I am guessing you will need a new url since it looks like you you are not using a domain name. If this is the case, all of your regular visitors will have to find you again - which may not be easy.

To bad you did not have a forum or mailing list at the site. Also I would suggest getting a domain name so that no matter where your site is host, the url will stay the same and you will not lose your regular visitors.

[Dickydongle]

Thanks for the speedy reply Dan.

I am on a very tight budget due to being unwaged for 18 years so obvously have to do everything on the cheap.

So what would a domain name cost, and would I have to pay for hosting, or could I stay with Tiscali?. I'm not quite sure how it would work? :dizzy:

[30111987]

you can stay with tiscali and just use a domain provider that support cloaking

alternativy you can get low cost webhosting with webmania

I use them (im 17, so dont have masses of money to throw around), http://www.web-mania.com

[renegade600]

Thanks for the speedy reply Dan.

I am on a very tight budget due to being unwaged for 18 years so obvously have to do everything on the cheap.

So what would a domain name cost, and would I have to pay for hosting, or could I stay with Tiscali?. I'm not quite sure how it would work? :dizzy:

It depends where you get the domain name. I would suggest using a service like godaddy.com to purchase the domain name. It will run about nine dollars a year and you can cloak the url.