Wordpress, Google Workspace & changing domain?

[chml]

Hi... a bit of a convoluted one here and I'm not sure if it's possible.

I have a website - chml.com for instance. I have a basic website there but I've never done anything with it. I have a wordpress account that has just automatically renewed as well for this.

I want to have a new website - joebloggs.com - can I do anything to the wordpress site/account to use it for this new address given that I've just renewed this for another 12 months? I also pay somebody else for Webhosting/the basic website if that makes any difference?

Also, I have a Google Workspace account with an email address - [e-mail] but would like to use [e-mail] BUT still get any emails that might come through to XXX@chml for a period of time to ensure that I've updated everybody and some of my once a year clients can still contact me if they use the old email address.

Does this make sense/is it possible?

Thanks

[dapprman]

Are you using wordpress.com or a hosting site with a wordpress package? If the former then they are happy to register domains for you - 1st year free, then I suspect they get expensive, however you can also have a domain through another provider and redirect that to point to your Wordpress.com site, it's what I do at present. You need your Wordpress.com package to include the ability to do this, as you're paying it should do (they have just redone their costing structure and for personal blogs their prices have shot right up)..

[Bikerjon]

I don't quite get the Wordpress part, but Google workspace allows additional domains to be added to the primary account. Google calls these "alias or secondary domains" and there shouldn't be any additional cost, but there is a subtle difference between the two types.

Edited by Bikerjon on Thursday 21st July 19:05

[chml]

Thanks both.

I purchased the original domain from godaddy (I think) and then the latest invoice from Wordpress reads:

WordPress.com Business(recurring)
Annual subscription
£240.00
Domain Registration(recurring)
Annual subscription
£15.00

I then pay £12 per month to somebody else for:
Premium Shared Web Hosting

I am only really wanting a landing/holding page for the new site but will not be using the existing address anymore so thought that might be cheaper/easier.

Sounds like google will let me do what I need to there so that should be ok

[Brother D]

chml said:

Thanks both.

I purchased the original domain from godaddy (I think) and then the latest invoice from Wordpress reads:

WordPress.com Business(recurring)
Annual subscription
£240.00
Domain Registration(recurring)
Annual subscription
£15.00

I then pay £12 per month to somebody else for:
Premium Shared Web Hosting

I am only really wanting a landing/holding page for the new site but will not be using the existing address anymore so thought that might be cheaper/easier.

Sounds like google will let me do what I need to there so that should be ok

That's pretty expensive for hosting - you are paying nearly $400 a year for hosting of a site that's not being used a lot? Godady are ok but there are a ton of much cheaper hosting places around. Domains are domains and recently cloudflare are offering cheap rates.

[chml]

Brother D said:

That's pretty expensive for hosting - you are paying nearly $400 a year for hosting of a site that's not being used a lot? Godady are ok but there are a ton of much cheaper hosting places around. Domains are domains and recently cloudflare are offering cheap rates.

The premium hosting is through another company. As you can tell, I’m baffled by all of this.

[dapprman]

chml said:

Thanks both.

I purchased the original domain from godaddy (I think) and then the latest invoice from Wordpress reads:

WordPress.com Business(recurring)
Annual subscription
£240.00
Domain Registration(recurring)
Annual subscription
£15.00

I then pay £12 per month to somebody else for:
Premium Shared Web Hosting

I am only really wanting a landing/holding page for the new site but will not be using the existing address anymore so thought that might be cheaper/easier.

Sounds like google will let me do what I need to there so that should be ok

I take it you have two domains ? - 1 through godaddy and another through Wordpress.com ? - as you're paying £15 for something there as well.

To the other poster - the Business package was the second highest of 4 premium options under their own scheme with the options as below:

Should add that it comes with a lot of Jetpack stuff, but then so does the basic version I use.

[chml]

dapprman said:

chml said:

Thanks both.

I purchased the original domain from godaddy (I think) and then the latest invoice from Wordpress reads:

WordPress.com Business(recurring)
Annual subscription
£240.00
Domain Registration(recurring)
Annual subscription
£15.00

I then pay £12 per month to somebody else for:
Premium Shared Web Hosting

I am only really wanting a landing/holding page for the new site but will not be using the existing address anymore so thought that might be cheaper/easier.

Sounds like google will let me do what I need to there so that should be ok

I take it you have two domains ? - 1 through godaddy and another through Wordpress.com ? - as you're paying £15 for something there as well.

To the other poster - the Business package was the second highest of 4 premium options under their own scheme with the options as below:

Should add that it comes with a lot of Jetpack stuff, but then so does the basic version I use.

I only have domain at the moment. I bought it through GoDaddy but I don't think I'm paying them anything anymore, I pay Wordpress an annual fee and I pay a web company the £15 per month presumably for hosting? They put the content on the Wordpress site for me and then will make any changes if I need it.

Think it might be easier to just buy a new domain and start afresh as long as I can get the Google account sorted to keep access to the emails. Would I still get access to the [e-mail] email if I don't have the website anymore?

[Captain_Morgan]

chml said:

I only have domain at the moment. I bought it through GoDaddy but I don't think I'm paying them anything anymore, I pay Wordpress an annual fee and I pay a web company the £15 per month presumably for hosting? They put the content on the Wordpress site for me and then will make any changes if I need it.

Think it might be easier to just buy a new domain and start afresh as long as I can get the Google account sorted to keep access to the emails. Would I still get access to the [e-mail] email if I don't have the website anymore?

It sounds confusing but it looks like

The Wordpress business fee of £240 is a business hosting package

The £15 pa to Wordpress is your annual domain registration fee for chml.com

The £12 pm to another company is for them to support/administer the Wordpress site.

You are also paying for a google workspace account correct?

I would ask the company who is doing the support/admin to confirm this.


The domain registration fees for chml.com still need to be paid if you want to continue to use a [e-mail] email address.

If you no longer want a website at chml.com then you can stop the payment to Wordpress (£240 pa) & the other company. You would want to transfer the chml.com from Wordpress to a different domain registrar, ideally to the same one as your new domain xyz.com is registered with.

This might help get your head around domain registration

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/dns/glos...

Wordpress give clear instructions on how to transfer domain registration here

https://wordpress.com/support/domains/transfer-dom...


I don’t use gsuite so may be fuzzy on detail here but as I understand things
If you want to be send & receive email as [e-mail] & as [e-mail] you’ll need to register the new domain name with google & pay extra for that second mail box.

Google call it a secondary domain.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/175747?hl=en#z...

I suggest you talk with whoever set up your gsuite in the first place.

Edited by Captain_Morgan on Saturday 23 July 09:29

[e-honda]

There is no cost on google workspace for additional domains especially when setup as an alias, you pay per user.

If you go down the route of secondary domain you potentially end up with more charges if you duplicate users. If you have 1 person with a user for each domain then you pay twice for that person. There are ways you can setup secondary domains but do some cross domain mail setup so that some users in 1 domain can send / receive on another domain so no duplication of users is required but its complex.

The alias domain is simple and does it for you and is very easy to setup. It works for most people, the only real limitation is that you cannot have any users who exclusively use the alias domain with no account on the primary domain.