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What Is Website Hosting?
One of the easiest anaolgies to understand how hosting, a webite and domain name work together is to equate it to real estate.
Your domain name (www.yourwebsite.com) is the title to the property; your hosting account is the land; and your website is the building on the land. You need all three to own a house.
The type of hosting that you use will depend on your goals and budget. If you don’t have much traffic coming to your site, are not overly concerned about security, but need an affordable and reliable hosting, you may want to consider a hosting company such as HostGator or BlueHost. Generally you will be put on shared servers with other websites to keep your costs low.
Some people like using GoDaddy for hosting. While we love GoDaddy for Domain Registration, it is not our favorite for web hosting. We are also not big fans of Network Solutions, which tends to “oversell” customers on products they don’t need or won’t ever use, at a premium price point.
Larger corporations and companies may opt for dedicated hosting, however it comes at a premium price point, usually hundreds or thousands of dollars a month.
At Nora Kramer Designs, we have chosen the middle ground, a VPS (virtual private server). Our VPS is leased through LiquidWeb, a premier website hosting company, and we offer our clients web hosting services starting at $14/month on it.
By offering hosting on our VPS it allows us to make sure our clients aren’t sharing hosting space with other questionable websites, which could slow down their sites or offer a backdoor for hackers and malware into them through the server. Sites hosted on our VPS will only be sharing space with other clients of ours (i.e. sites wer know personally). Our hosting also offers additional security features at the server level.
Of course, you are always welcome to host your site elsewhere if you like. Just be sure the host you choose can handle the specs we recommend for your hosting environment.
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