looking for shared web hosting

[Giles Orr]

A little added info on domain registration (not hosting) ...

On 12/2/06, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Is it best to buy a domain from a different place rather than getting
> > the domain plus hosting service from the same company?
>
> There's no technical reason to prefer to have the hosting service
> arrange for domain name registration, and some reasons why to prefer
> NOT to share that with them.

I second this: buy your domain names separately from your hosting.
The initial setup is a little more annoying, but your hosting provider
(who should have a good help system after quizzing GTALUG :-) can walk
you through any potential problems.  Christopher Browne covered the
ugly scenarios that can happen if you don't own the names yourself -
and believe me, they're real.

I registered some of my domain names with a local TO company,
budgetnames.ca - their parent company also owns lowcostdomains.ca and
registeryour.ca, but budgetnames.ca is the cheapest of the three (it
offers less services).  At the time I didn't have a credit card, and I
needed a place I could walk in with cash.  They haven't been
enormously helpful, but it's been fine and they're both local and
cheap.  So ... kind of a half-assed recommendation.

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