I normally do my domain registrations and web hosting with separate companies (typically Name.com and Linode, respectively), so their billing is totally unrelated. The hosting has always been just month-to-month, not annual or longer. I'm guessing your original purchase was with some sort of "new customer discount", hence the increase now - check the fine print I guess. For testing stuff at home, you can always just edit /etc/hosts on your testing box, as that will take precedence over external DNS records. On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 7:24 PM, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >