What happens to domain name and website when hosting company closes down?

[ukonline]

Need to know what to do about website. Hosting company has closed down with no warning. What happens now? Is the website and domain name lost?

 

[aquanuke]

Is it a .com , .uk or other?

If its a static / simple site then you could try to retrive it from http://www.archive.org

 

[retired_member32]

what has this got to do with websites for sale.....

 

[monaghanmonaghan is verified member.]

Simple - restore your backup to a new company and re-point the DNS.

 

[ABCV]

Next time remember to use a more reputable hosting company! Cheap price = bad service.

 

[Aaron Clifford]

Simple - restore your backup to a new company and re-point the DNS.

Next time remember to use a more reputable hosting company! Cheap price = bad service.

Both of them seem pretty good advice to me!

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

moved to hosting section

 

[sowhatever]

I had this problem with a hosting company because i was looking for cheap hosting,one day the entire server crashed and they lost all my data could not get it back and did not give me a refund.never again will i go for a cheap hosting company pay a little more and get good reliable service.Always keep a backup.

 

[monaghanmonaghan is verified member.]

Regardless of the cost of the hosting, you still need to keep a personal backup / archive. If you get hacked or make a mistake and don't notice until after the backup has run you are still in trouble even though there is a backup.