Published on August 16th, 2008 by Matthew Hedges in Web Hosting
by Matt Hedges
If you’re like many small business owners out there using a web hosting company, you probably have a small website that was designed some time ago, but you’re probably not entirely familiar with what options you have available to you for web hosting. Once your site has been designed and launched, the work has just begun and it’s up to you to make the most of your relationship with your web host.
Price wars have also played a part in reducing the cost of hosting. To become more competitive, web hosts now offer additional free services to attract new business. Companies like InMotion, Host Monster and Blue Host offer great additional features like control panels, plug-in functionality, free domain names, merchant accounts and free marketing dollars from companies like Google AdWords.
If you haven’t contacted your web host or at least reviewed their website within the past 3 months, it’s time to take another look. Check their website and understand what services you are currently paying for and what packages are available. This will help you to understand what features you currently have available with your web host.
If your hosting company doesn’t have a good uptime record, doesn’t offer a control panel, 24/7 support, free scripts and other goodies, it’s time to find a new host. Most small business hosting plans are available now days for less than $10 monthly, which offer unlimited disk storage, unlimited bandwidth and even an unlimited number of websites that can be hosted on your account.
If, after you have examined the fine detail on your current web hosting package, you come to find that your hosting company isn’t offering a variety of free additional features, you should find a new hosting company. But how do you move your website to a new host? Its very easy to do if you are using the ubiquitous cPanel control panel. With cPanel, you can simply backup your existing website and ‘restore’ it with your new host. After this, you just need to update your domain name settings with your registrar.
If you’ve transferred your data to a new web host, you’ll need to contact your registrar to transfer your domain name. Many web hosting companies today also offer domain name registration services. For example, GoDaddy offers domain registration, cheap hosting, add on scripts, merchant accounts and a wealth of other features. Most small companies find that their needs can be meant conveniently through one company. That way, they only need to contact one company for any problem they have with their website.
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