I know people losing domain names for not extending the registration on time.
I also know people losing the hosting of their websites.
Some tips:
- Don’t buy a lot of domain names. Focus on having one or two per entity (person, company). If needed, create subfolders (site.com/subfolder) and install in there a separate WordPress.
- When registering a domain and later, when extending the registration, don’t buy it for one year or two, buy it for a lot of years at once. The same criteria for hosting, although in general, it’s less important, if you have a backup.
- Put a memo for when the domain name/hosting expires.
- Use for registration data for a domain name/hosting an email address you’re sure you’ll check 4 years later, or whenever the hosting/domain name registration expires.
- Have a periodical backup of a WordPress database automatically saved via a plugin.
- Manually backup website files from time to time. Alternatively, choose a hosting provider that offers backup of the files.
