https and ssl certificates for my PlusNet hosted website.
@mkstevo wrote:
My current domain at 1and1 seems to be pointed to: ns1 and ns2 at a force9 address, presumably to enable email forwarding to take place? Although my additional domain of MkEDS.co.uk is redirected to http://www.mkstevo.plus.com/mkeds/ (which in turn,redirects back to the mkstevo homepage).
Showing how long it has been since I did much at 1and1, I tried to visit their support pages today only to find out they're now called Ionos, and have been for many years!
In my defence, this isn't simple for a nearly sixty year old...
Hi @mkstevo
Probably the simplest way to get what you need (given PlusNet can't provide you with https:// addresses for the domain names themselves) is to transfer the hosting to somewhere that gives you https:// *plus* e-mail for each domain.
I'd recommend Mythic Beasts - see their prices at https://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting - you can host more than one domain on a single account at £2.50/month (and afaik unlimited e-mail addresses).
I transferred the HappyChild site to MB last summer - very reluctantly because the homepages servers at F9/PN have been brilliant for many years and the support here has always been so good. Sole reason for the transfer was because lack of https:// addresses made the website look "insecure".
I am not going to pretend the transfer was an easy process 😕 not being a techie I found it massively challenging. However I made notes at every stage of the process and in the event the whole thing went very smoothly, over a period of several weeks of setting up everything in readiness on their server (third-party domain hosting or some such, it was called) and gradually transferring things across.
If you decide to go with Mythic Beasts (I have no idea how their prices compare with 1 and 1 [ionos]) I'd be happy to answer questions about how to do stuff or find stuff on the MB site, relating to the whole process of setting up basic hosting and e-mail addresses. MB are very technically-proficient but their website pages aren't especially well interlinked / signposted for us non-techie people.
They don't charge to import domain names and their renewal prices last year for co.uk domains were about half the price of 123-reg (so a significant saving if you have several). Domain name renewal prices are at https://www.mythic-beasts.com/domains .
Lots of techie people on the forums here will help if you decide to move your hosting (to MB or elsewhere). Lots of us have had to move domains over the last year or two because of the https:// factor or because business accounts were being closed - not ideal but a lot of people have kept their broadband/fibre with PN and stayed active on the forums here, so 'the community' has continued somewhat against the odds.
Just ask 
they're a friendly bunch, mostly.
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