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Hello Nairalanders.

AfricaTech covers practical website, hosting and software topics across providers.

Disclosure for this thread: the account operator has a business interest in Bazecity, telaHosting, telaPilot and telaForge. Background on those businesses: https://bazecity.com/.

A website can look finished and still be difficult to manage later. Before paying for a new build or changing developers, agree on these handover details:

1. Domain control
Check who controls the registrar account and whose details are recorded as the registrant. A website admin login and access to the domain are different things.

2. Recovery email
Make sure renewal and account-recovery messages reach an address your business controls. Consider what happens if the website or its email stops working.

3. Renewal responsibility
Write down the renewal date, ongoing price, billing currency and who will make the payment. First-year pricing does not tell you the ongoing cost.

4. DNS and business email
Record where the domain's DNS and email are managed. Review the existing records before changing nameservers so the website move does not overlook email.

5. Backups
Agree on what the backup includes: website files, databases where used, and email if required. Check that the backup can actually be restored before relying on it.

6. Working access
Confirm you can sign in and make the updates you need. Use separate or delegated access where supported, enable two-factor authentication where available, and agree how the developer's access will be managed after handover.

Which part of a website handover has caused you the most trouble: domain access, email, backups or making updates? Please keep passwords, licence keys and private account information out of the thread.