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in Web by Guru (27.3k points)
First of all i gotta admit i was stuupid, but iwas the best idea i could pull in such a short sace of time, so here goes my story, i am regula on makeuseof.com just like am a regular here on techzim, so ientered this giveaway and never thought i could be one of the lucky winners, but i did....so i won free webhosting in a giveaway on makeuseof.com, http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/affordable-secure-and-fast-web-hosting-by-siteground-giveaway/.

so i was one of the luck winnners above, sadly i saw the notification about winning on easter friday and it was gonna expire in 3 days time, i had no domain at the time and given it was easter, the webhosting companies in zim were like closed, so i couldnt register a .co.zw domain.

so i went to go daddy, and bought a .com domain for ten bucks.

I hosted it withing the timeframe they had given me. Now my issue is i was and still am a novice, a neophyte in these things, i thought that the rie was gonna be easy and being someone who has a large followin on facebook, i thought i was gonna easily convince the to join my site and it would be boom, u know, dreams, sadly it dint turn out that way and i found that my site was below mediocre, here were a ot of tech sites doing better stuff than me, better looking websites and been in the business for a while and as such have built a good reputation with Google in terms of page rank.

so the excitement of winning over, i realized its tougher with a .com domain since its kinda more international than say a .co.zw, so i opened a new site, with a .co.zw and this has proved to be like ten times more successful than my first site, only problem is i am paying for this one.

now i only wish i could reverse the hands of time, i made a deadly mistake, i have one year top dollar premium hosting, just sitting there, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk pace everythng, yet the site and the concept sucks, i have a new site, very promising yet stricter and expensive hosting terms.

is it possible to switch thee two sites, like i move my useless site(www.thewebaddicts.com ) to myhost in zim and take my new site to the webhost where i won free full one year hosting?

or is it possible to find someone i can sell this hosting and and domain name to?

sorry for the essay friends, i have a thing for details and elucidating!!!

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2 Answers

+1 vote
by Guru (88.1k points)
lt takes time to build a successful website, usually a minimum of 2years hard working, no joy riding!
by Guru (27.3k points)
its not always the case, i would say most of the time, but there is always an exception to the rule, sometimes all yu need is a fantastic, novel idea, look at sites like facebook, myspace and so on, sometimes if the idea is just excellent, you dont even need a week....but of course for blogging and so on, i guess you are right
by Regular (2.1k points)
Free hosting is never faithful hosting even if you are doing well or not spaming platform except blogspot platform.I made several small websites in free hosting and tried to increase traffic but at one time free hosting has completely stopped all sites. and sometime, free hosting platforms get banned, or stop working... these affect your site instantly so don't believe on any free hosting. Just by one for you.
I have over 10 years of experience managing my own sites with several different web hosting companies, as well as managing sites for clients on various web hosts.
By my personal experience i will suggest http://www.xnynz.com/hosting/web-hosting.aspx?ci=1783&prog_id=456858 they are indeed doing good service in hosting and the price also would be reasonable to your budget. go through their plans you might like it.
+1 vote
by Regular (1.7k points)
Just change your name servers and you are done. See examples below.

Current setup
1. www.useless.co.zw -
nameserver1 - ns1.somewhere.com
nameserver2. - ns2.somewhere.com

2. www.goodsite.com
nameserver1 - ns1.here.com
nameserver2. - ns2.here.com


New setup
1. www.useless.co.zw -
nameserver1 - ns1.here.com
nameserver2. - ns2.here.com

2. www.goodsite.com
nameserver1 - ns1.somewhere.com
nameserver2. - ns2.somewhere.com
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