aCstudent

Did you mean http://molecountrysticks.co.uk? If so – nice sticks! Looks like the dot com is available, by the way. The site is speedy for me, and pingdom gives it straight A’s and a performance rating of 97. Maybe just a slow internet connection on your end?

Have you tried using a plugin like Duplicator or WP Clone to move the site?

If your host has PHP mail disabled, and if they decline to enable it (like my host), you can try a plugin like WP Mail SMTP to use SMTP instead of PHP mail.

I did this by using the free plugin Really Simple SSL. As advertised, it was really simple, and for me it works perfectly.

Do any emails from your site work? If not, it could be that your host has the PHP mail feature turned off to reduce spam. Some hosts will turn it on by request, some (like mine) will not. The plugin WP Mail SMTP solved this for me.

Hi Suvix,

Regular backups are an excellent best practice – so pat yourself on the back! Many of the catastrophic problems on this forum could be easily fixed if only the user had a recent backup to restore. Re. plugins – try some out, pick one that works well for you – and practice restoring a test site. Re. cloud storage – good choice, I would not worry about hackers searching out and killing backup copies across the Internet – seems far fetched. Re. frequency – depends on how often your site changes. For my relatively static sites monthly is plenty. I keep three copies of each backup in different locations – on the site, local drive, usb stick.