Hi everyone,
I was hoping for some suggestions and personal experiences with who I should select for registering a website name and also hosting a small business website. So far, after some googling, I've looked at 'godaddy', '1and1', 'mydomain' and 'justhost'. Am I on the right track? What kind of privacy and protection services should I be looking for?
Thanks
What are you trying to do. We used to have our own hosting company, now we go with godaddy as one of our sites.
Namecheap. Nice registrar, and they let you add whois guard to hide contact info if you need it. Can't really give a solid recommendation for hosting, I do mine from home since its just personal use.
Just starting a small local business, want to register the name to a .ca domain, and get some info plastered onto a small easy site for now for exposure and more info for clients.
forget 1and1 ,godaddy gets my vote .
Maybe netfirms.ca for Canadian domains
One of my friends is testing OVH hosting in Canada, it's nothing official yet, but maybe something to look into next year. Canadian hosting is generally low quality and very expensive (no competition here).
I have a major forum and have been using HOST DMS problem free for a few years now. I had another name registered with GoDaddy and moved it to my Canadian host due to cost.
Registering a name is not expensive and hosting cost is dependent on what you want for service.
There are a few things to keep in mind if one is using PHP most host sites are fine, GoDaddy does not like vBulletin .
Hosts can give stand alone server space or bundle.
My service is bundle and the server has never had issues with speed.
Cost almost nothing for my service.
GoDaddy likes to up-sell extras so you better know what you need.
I'm in the middle of setting up my photography site, and I've had people recommend Hostmonster and Hostgator. I've read a few detrimental things about godaddy, but have no personal experience.
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Any substance to the reviews provided here at 'toptenreviews'? http://web-hosting-review.toptenreviews.com/ ddkay I like the feature of privatizing my contact info from whois. Not sure if godaddy offers this service and at that price. Apparently http://www.gybo.ca/ teamed up with google and yola to provide free services to Canadians starting up small business (gybo = get your business online) but a lot of feedback I read was very negative regarding yola's service.
Last edited by A320; 2012-06-25 at 12:21 AM.
Originally Posted by indexxx
Has to be .ca and looks like hostgator and monster don't offer that.
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