{"id":3209,"date":"2008-08-16T11:39:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T16:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/16\/finding-value-in-web-hosting\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T11:39:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T16:39:31","slug":"finding-value-in-web-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=3209","title":{"rendered":"Finding Value in Web Hosting."},"content":{"rendered":"
by Matt Hedges<\/div>\n

Most small business owners<\/a> have had their website for years, but rarely checkup with their web hosting<\/a> company to make sure that they are getting as much value as possible. If you’re one of the many that think your website can perform on ‘auto pilot’, you need to dust off the old .com and contact your hosting<\/a> company to make sure you’re getting as much value as possible out of your hosting.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

At $10 monthly, you should be able to find a host that will offer a free domain, control panel access, free website scripts, 24\/7 support and many other free features. If your hosting company doesn’t offer these, now standard, features then it is time to find a new host!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

So what is a registrar? A domain registrar has the authority to register and maintain records for your domain names. Most popular registrars also offer web hosting. GoDaddy, for instance offers web hosting, domain names, SSL certificates, and a plethora of other services. It’s really a matter of preference if you choose to have your web host and your registrar under the same roof. Most small business owners find it more convenient to have their domain registration and web hosting with the same company; this way they have one point of contact for all their website needs.<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
Republished with permission from WebHostingMadness.com, a publisher of hosting company ratings<\/a>, comparisons and detailed articles about the web hosting industry.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most small business owners have had their website for years, but rarely checkup with their web hosting company to make sure that they are getting as much value as possible. If you’re one of the many that think your website can perform on ‘auto pilot’, you need to dust off the old .com and contact your hosting company to make sure you’re getting as much value as possible out of your hosting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":791,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}