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Why You Want Web Hosting and Domain Registration in Your Name

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.

September 23, 2020 By Deborah Edwards-Onoro

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).

Imagine you’re a business owner with a WordPress site you’ve had for over a dozen years.

You’re slowly winding down your business, with plans to close it in the near future.

But you want to keep your site up and running for a while longer.

You’ve moved to managed WordPress hosting so you don’t have to worry about WordPress updates.

You haven’t changed your custom theme in over five years. And you haven’t added any new content to your site in the past four years. Continue reading WordPress Backup Services and Plugins Part 2: Read the Fine Print