Why You Want Web Hosting and Domain Registration in Your Name

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When it comes to launching your website, you’ll likely hire a web designer or developer to help you get your site online.

Like your car mechanic, you hire them for their knowledge and experience in designing, developing, and publishing a website.

One area web designers and developers know about is web hosting and domain registration.

While many will offer to set up hosting and register your domain name, I always recommend clients buy their own web hosting and domain registration.

Why? Continue reading Why You Want Web Hosting and Domain Registration in Your Name

Quick Tip: How to Flush Cache at DNS Hosts for Faster DNS Record Changes

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Imagine you’ve moved your website to a new web host, a faster host with better customer support.

Which means you need to update your domain records to point to your new host.

You log into your domain registrar and update the records for the new host.

And wait.

You know it can take a while for the changes to propagate (the time it takes for your changes to take effect).

Read on to learn about DNS and steps you can take to help propagation to go faster. Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Flush Cache at DNS Hosts for Faster DNS Record Changes

Quick Tip: Reset Time to Live (TTL) After Changing Domain Records

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Last night at our West Metro Detroit WordPress meetup, we spoke about web hosting and changing hosts.

One of the side conversations was about updating domain records when you change your host.

And what you can do to make the process run quickly and smoothly. Continue reading Quick Tip: Reset Time to Live (TTL) After Changing Domain Records