Domain Registration/Web Hosting Suggestions
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 16:04
Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is quite the right place to put this topic, but I don't see a better place than general discussion. I'm looking to buy a domain name soon and was wondering which domain hosting website to purchase from. I know that Domain Registration and Web Hosting is different, but am still very new to everything. I'd like some basic advise and rundown of different pros and cons for each provider suggested. It's hard to find reliable information about webhosting, so I thought I'd ask here. Thanks!
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- Pricing rates
- Web Hosing packages
- Customer Service
- Personal Opinion
Please add more information than what is bulleted above. Those are just things that should at least be included.
Any halfway decent hosting provider will also handle domain registration and hosting for you if you want it. As for pricing, that varies a lot depending on your needs. For example, here's the plan I have. (Actually, it's a bit different because I'm an old customer.) Couldn't tell you about support because the few problems I had years ago were solved quietly before I could be bothered to complain. Hope this helps.
Sorry I cant give you any good suggestions because I havent used a good provider before, but I can tell you to avoid godaddy or streamline dot net. Godaddy have great technical support staff but they suffer from terrible speed issues which they find acceptable. Streamline is just bad in evey way.
Your right to ask for recommendations because otherwise theres no way of knowing how good the service will be until you start using it. In my company, we have resorted to hosting the websites on our own web servers and its been much more reliable.
I use gandi.net for OGA's domain registration. They cost a bit more than godaddy, but it's worth an extra $7/year to me not to have to wade through tons of upsell crap to get to my actual domain options.
I use namecheap and i'm super happy with them, great customer support and they do awesome things like donate to the EFF. After the whole SOPA fiasco, there was a lot of discussion about which hosting provider to switch to instead of goDaddy, and a lot of people on reddit suggested namecheap so i went with them, and it's great.
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I use gandi.net for DNS and ChicagoVPS for my micro VPS ( very small 128MB ram, 10GB HD, 100GB bandwidth, $12 a year). nginx to the rescue. That and serving static html only.