Website Hosting Fees
We do NOT include hosting in our fees. These are better left under your control and purchased separately. In fact, because of stories we've heard about other web designers, we recommend you keep your website hosting with one company and your domain name with another. If your relationship with a web designer or webmaster deteriorates, you may lose control of your website or domain name. At the very least, you should always, always, always control your domain name yourself and don't give that log-in information to anyone. A website can be replaced by another designer, but you can't replace your domain name. We recommend: hosting for $8.95 a month. (This hosting service occasionally offers specials so the fee may be lower than quoted here.)
Managing your hosting yourself is easy to do and we'll walk you through it when you become a GoGetSites.com client.
What Is Hosting?
Hosting is how you make your website public. It's possible to create a website and host it on a home computer but that isn't practical. Instead, you or your web designer will use a hosting company that runs multiple servers and literally "serves up" your site to the world. Think of your newly designed website as artwork for a billboard: Until you choose a billboard location and have your artwork posted on a billboard structure, no one can see it. Just as you would pay by the month or year to keep your billboard posted and visible to the public in the real world, you will pay a hosting company to make your website visible to potential customers in the virtual world.
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