Farewell!
Hi everyone!
This is my official goodbye to WA due to economic difficulties. Those who gave me good tips and advice thank you very much.
My website did well and I am proud what I was able to accomplish with it. However, did not receive great help to move my site between both the previous or new host. So my site is completely gone.
Thus, I will have to start from scratch if I want a website again and blog for a living. Anyways, those who helped me in WA thank you and hope you would prosper with you website creations.
I will most likely not return to WA until economic changes are better. If anyone have tips to make a website based in South Africa that is more affordable for blogging, please let me know before I terminate my WA account.
Farewell
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might be worth jumping on the groove offer at the moment of a free account...
within there you may be able to create your online business after leaving wa...
you hopefully have learnt a lot while here and can continue to learn after you leave...
just remember that not every affiliate marketer has come through wa and you can learn outside of here...
i am sad that your site has gone , but hopefully is a learning process, not to trust others with your business...take backups of everything important...
but as you have created a successful site once, you can do it again....
good luck in your future Bernard.....
to your success
phil
Hi Breyt. Why is your website lost? I don't know much about migration but backing your website up for restoring later is simple and should be done at least every quarter. Backup Your Website
Hi Lebogang22
I was able to backup my site to google drive. However, the site itself is gone now. Still have the backup files under my google drive.
I see. If you have the files, then you still have the website. But for a website to remain online, you must have hosting.
And for Wordpress with the necessary functionality, the minimum is $33 per month (or billed yearly at $300) if you get it straight from Wordpress and have to do a lot of the tinkering on your own. https://wordpress.com/pricing/
So it's going to be very difficult to find better value than what's available on WA ($359 per year of you jump in on Black Friday and go yearly) unless you maybe experiment with other CMSs that aren't Wordpress.
Do you have a back up of your site? Site support does daily back ups. So if you contact site support, they'll help you out.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/websites/support
I also suggest you backup your sites, you can use the AIO WP Migration or Updraft plugins. UpdraftPlus is a premium and highly recommended
Hi AbieAJ
I did try for help and they basically repeat the statement new host must help. While the new host said the current host must provide certain details to move the site.
Since both could not help correctly, I just call it quiets. I have my site backup on google drive. However, site totally gone.
Right yes the new host support must aid you to migrate your site over, if they cannot then you choose a different host.
Siteground is one awesome service and they will help.
Resource
https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/getting-started/transfer-your-existing-site/
It can be recovered.
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I wish you the best! If you found a new host that is affordable, then I recommend looking online for tutorials on how to move a wordpress website to a new host.
Like all things, it’s daunting until you’ve done it a few times. However, once you’re comfortable with it, then it’s just another skill you have in your toolbox.