5 Things About Web Hosting
Never let another company register your domain- this is the lease to your online business – protect it. We have seen lots of companies fall prey to other companies registering their domains. This can often lead to unwanted hassle when you want to change hosting companies. In these turbulent times lots of companies are going out of business. If they have registered your domain and are no longer around you may loose everything you’ve worked so hard for.
Register your domain at godaddy. It’s easy, inexpensive and they have excellent customer support. We don’t recommend you host your website there. If you don’t want to host your website with Group5 there are plenty of good web hosting companies out there. You want to make sure your hosting company is SEO friendly, has good 24 hour customer support, preferably not overseas. It’s hard enough to try to understand everything you need to know about hosting why make it harder by having a hard time understanding your customer support.
Make sure you have a recent backup of your website design. Assure that your files and database are saved on your local machine. This is so important! But don’t just save it on your local machine, make hard copies of it on DVD disks too. There are numerous things that can happen to make you lose all your data. Be prepared, back it up!
Email should always be included in your web hosting plan- don’t buy it separately. This makes things much easier to maintain thus taking the headache out of managing two different accounts. Be sure to use your company email on all your marketing, promotional material and correspondence. This gives you a more professional look to the people and companies you do business with. Nothing looks more “Mom & Pop” than yourname@yahoo.com.
You only need a Security Certificate if you are requesting sensitive information such as social security numbers or credit card information or other personal data that needs to be protected. Having a security certificate helps to make your customers feel safe when ordering from you. It has been shown that having a security certificate on your site increases conversions tremendously.
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Posted by group5 on Friday, August 14, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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