Hosting Ending. What will happen to my WordPress site?

  • Hey guys ??

    The first year of my WordPress.com site on Siteground hosting is ending but I want to put the blog on hold for several months till I’m ready to return to it again. I can’t find an answer to these concerns anywhere:

    1. What happens to WordPress when my hosting ends?
    2. Will my theme, plugins etc. still be there if I stop hosting now but restart it again 3-6 months later? Or will it all be wiped clean?
    3. Do I need to be on the same hosting site for all my themes/plugins to be there months later?

    I would really appreciate a response to this soon because my hosting is ending in literally about 3 days. Thank you!!

    Masha

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  • From my understanding you have a limited knowledge of this things so i would just recommend that you just renew your hosting and just put your website offline or put an index.html /landing page.

    If you were to not renew the hosting, you would need to create a full account backup and download it to your computer and whenever you are ready to resume business restore it.

    Jason King

    (@jasoncharlesstuartking)

    Absolutely, make a full back up now: files, uploads, database, everything – and save it on your computer.

    Most responsible hosts will keep your files intact if you don’t renew the hosting, because people often forget to renew, but I doubt they keep it for that long so don’t risk it.

    Personally I’d pay to renew it, if it’s an inexpensive package.

    Thread Starter Maasha

    (@maasha)

    Thank you for responding! What is the best way to backup all of WordPress? I have updraft installed. I hope that would be enough to save all my themes and plugins. I also edited a lot of CSS, but it probably won’t save that right?

    Thread Starter Maasha

    (@maasha)

    And btw so my last question on my first post was if I backed up everything and moved to a new host everything, themes plugins CSS etc, would still work still be there?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    See this guide for a few backup methods: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Backups

    Using https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/updraftplus/ would probably be the easiest.

    As for moving the site, follow https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress#Moving_to_a_New_Server depending on whether you’re winding up with a new domain or not.

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