Domain Registration versus Hosting

Domain Registration versus Hosting

I like to keep hosting and registration separate.

Whenever you register a domain, make sure you register it at an ICANN accredited registrar. Whenever you host a domain use a reliable host. It is usually a bad idea to cross the two.

When people register a site at a host, it may be hard to renew registration if you want to change hosting providers. Buy hosting from a host and not from a registrar. Many registrars do not have good technical support and do not place enough value on their hosted clients either.

Hosting

Problems With Bad Hosting

There are a ton of unreliable hosts on the web. Hosting is one thing I recommend spending good money on. If your site goes down, you may lose customers, and search engines may not be able to index your site.

Some extremely low-quality hosts will place hundreds or thousands of domains on a single IP address on a single server. This may cause system lag and overload the server. Some hosts will not let you change some of your files or the configurations that you need to change when running your site. If you run into those sorts of problems, then it may be best to change hosting providers.