Hi I’m new to this site and have read many or the old posts particularly web hosting and how you should do it as a small business. Free websites are a waste of time and unprofessional. Many low cost resellers are not reliable enough to keep the site up and search engines don’t like either so you’d be lucky to get any sort of listing. I have a number of sites and keep them all at joker, a registration site. From there, if you’re with BT or Sky you can direct your site to the included web space in your package. You can, for reliability, point to more than one space, so if one is down your site jumps to the secondary hoster. If you have a falling out with a provider, just bail and point somewhere else. The problem with resellers like 1&1 is they have your web address. If you find somewhere better, cheaper, more suited to your needs you have hells own trouble to get it off them and all the time you’re loosing custom. I now have a web server at home attached to my broadband. It runs one of my sites and cost twenty pounds from ebay. It‘s also very reliable and serves as an emergency backup for problems of providers. I write novels and publish for other writers; my personal site
http://www.keithhoare.com only receives around 100 hits a day so a home based server is fine. I study the internet to find a name that stands a good chance of going to the top. It would be pointless to write a book with the name Potter as 25 million listings is a long climb, so every book name is a website.
http://www.peopletrafficker.com or
http://www.peopletraders.com are good instances. I also find you need at least one host in America if you sell there, so I keep
http://gemmaswhitecliff.com American hosted. Bear in mind most British hosted sites, even .com sites hosted in Europe, are not listed over there and if you’re selling ebooks and for me books, I print in America, its necessary to have a listing. Hope that gives you all food for thought and I’m not teaching readers to suck eggs?
