Registrar for domain name + web hosting services?

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1. Lion King

   May 17th, 2011 at 3:18 pm

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   It’s true that sticking with reputable companies makes the situation better but that’s definitely not the best situation if you have got the choice. You should have your domain names registered from a separate domain registrar for 2 reasons:
   1. If at any time in the future you decide to leave your web host (for whatever reason) and move to a new one, then you’ll probably end up transferring each of your domain names to your new web host as well. Whereas if you had them with a separate registrar, you’d just have to move your files to a new web host and make your domain name point to your new host and things would be fine. Domain management is in itself doesn’t involve a lot of problems so there is very little chance that you’d want to transfer your domain names if you registered them separately.
   2. Usually (in every case I have seen at least) domains sold by web hosts cost a lot more. For e.g. it is very common to come across a price like $10 per year + domain privacy would usually be separate and you’d end up paying around $10 for that as well. So totally you might pay $20 or above if you went with web hosts.

   For domain registrars, I’d say netfirms.com is the best. They give you the domain name plus privacy (free) for $8 the first year and $12 (privacy remains free) for subsequent renewals. That’s the cheapest I’ve seen and they are reputed + give very good service (experience). I’d say namecheap would come second in my opinion. They are pretty good too.

   Several email accounts would not be a problem with most hosts. While a sitebuilder might be an easy way to put your site up fast (because of all the templates etc), using a content management system like Joomla would be better any idea because of all the flexibility that you’d have with Joomla (not to mention the scores of plugins you have for it). Again, Joomla would be supported by most, if not all hosts.

   For the hosting I’d say hostgator fares much much better than justhost (but that’s my opinion). They give you unlimited emails, a site builder and of course you could install Joomla on their hosting packages. No spammy upsells, great service and a customer support that listens to what you have to say. You are right, they’ve got tons of video tutorials that handles most of the situations you (or your employees could need assistance with). What’s more important is Hostgator has different types of hosting like shared, VPS and dedicated hosting, so in future if by any chance you want to be able to upgrade your hosting, its much simpler. JH only has shared hosting. If you decide to go for the yearly plans for gator, you could save a lot more than their advertised prices by using the coupons: ‘HOSTGATOR25OFFER’ gives you 25% off on your hosting cost, so you could end up saving $30-$70 using this coupon based on how many years you go for. If you want to go for a monthly payment, then you could get your first month for 1 cent by using ‘MONTH1FREE’ coupon.

   Hope that helps. If you feel this answer was more useful than others (and saved you some money ), I wouldn’t mind a ‘best answer’ award!

2. Yamuna Nandhini S

   May 17th, 2011 at 5:36 pm

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   You can register the Domain Name and host the site at low cost here http://www.tucktail.com/ you can get the website Builder Tool at low cost and Build website.

3. Lisa Patricia

   May 17th, 2011 at 8:06 pm

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   I use godaddy domains and hostgator hosting.This is my opinion is the best what i can do. Because hosting is so cheap.

   I found you article where you can get hostgator first month fo 1 cent.Check out the coupon codes.

4. Jodie

   May 17th, 2011 at 7:59 pm

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   Take a look at smallbusiness.officelive.com – it’s a website builder service that gives you a website, hosting and fourth-level domain. You can pay for a custom domain and register it through the service or use an existing domain and re-direct it.

   You’ll get templates to help create your website and can use the online community for help – it has Q&A, blogs and demos.

   The service also provides e-mail, site traffic reports and a contact management system.

5. Trish Taylor

   May 17th, 2011 at 9:02 pm

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   Hi, you don’t need to split the domain name and web hosting, as most web hosting offers include a free domain name.

   http://www.unbeatablewebhosting.com

   Hostgator costs less than $4 a month, inclusive of a free domain name and allows unlimited webmail accounts for your employees. The site builder is good and whois privacy and renewal is cheap.