Domain registration and hosting

[Giles Orr]

On Jan 15, 2008 12:54 PM, alorane <alorane-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The Non-Profit Group I am belonging to wants to build a website. Any
> suggestions for cheap and reliable Domain registration and hosting?
> I looked at VPSLink as they support Ubuntu and charge only $6.99 for hosting
> but they don't do the Domain registration.

It's generally considered better to do your own domain registration
separate from acquiring hosting.  It's true that it's not quite as
easy, but it isn't rocket science either - it just requires a bit of
patience.  Why should you buy them separately?  Because if you buy
together and are unhappy with your hosting, moving to another hosting
provider can be very difficult because your old hosting service can
refuse/"forget" to change anything about the registration - they own
it and control it.  If you own the registration separately (which I
think is particularly important for businesses and non-profits, more
so than individuals) you just log in to the registrar and change the
DNS for your domain to your new host and your old host has no say in
it at all.

Hosting providers come and go.  I've been fortunate, the one I started
with five years ago is still good.  But I own the domains myself, and
it's reassuring to know I have that control.

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