Which website services can I cancel without breaking my site?
The short answer
Things nothing depends on: add-ons you don’t use, trials you never set up, servers or databases from finished websites, and duplicates. Before cancelling, check what connects to the service, take a final backup, and find out whether cancelling ends it straight away or at the end of the period you’ve paid for.
- Check what depends on it. A database or storage service might quietly power a form, a shop or an app.
- Take a final backup or export and keep it somewhere else.
- Check whether cancelling ends the service immediately or at the end of the paid period, and whether any data is deleted.
- Cancel before the next renewal date, then check the website and email still work.
Words used here
- Paying for a dormant site
- The website is marked dormant but still pays for always-on services such as a database or server.
- Add-on
- An extra paid feature on top of a main plan — like domain privacy or premium DNS. Easy to forget and often unnecessary.
- Backup / snapshot
- A saved copy of your data at a moment in time, so you can restore it later. Always take one before deleting anything.
- As-built map
- A diagram of how your services connect — from the address people type, to the website, to the data and services behind it.
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