I want to create a business website and be able to host it using my own domain name. Can anyone recommend a good hosting service? If they are willing to register my domain for me that would be great and if they have some tools to help me build and maintain the website, that would be the best of all.
I don’t want to spend an arm and a leg on this either.
I have done some preliminary research and asked a couple of people at work, but I wanted to get some opinions to help me decide.
Your courting disaster here if you want to have someone like godaddy or another service register a domain name. Not so much with the individual services , but if your business takes off , you don’t want to be at the mercy of finding out after the hosting service went tits up ,that you don’t actually own the domain name, it was virtually created.
Its a business domain , spend what you have to , to insure 24/7 coverage and tech support , other wise its a hobby.
To give you an Idea , I am paying 24 bucks a year canadian , for the domain , and 9 bucks a month american for the hosting service, its not that expensive anymore for a single domain .
For my business I’ve gotten top-flight customer service for many years from a firm I’m very happy with. Cheap and reliable. Drop me a line if you want some contact info.