Starting your own business creating a website and email help
Discussion
hora said:
Interesting username 'feef 
On these sort of services who owns the actual name/email/URL variation that you chose for your company name? I.e in the future can a provider up their charges and your stuck or you'd have to again reg with another and variate the email if the first decided to charge or increase? Part paranoid but thought I'd ask just incase as if I get established the email/URL name would be crucial
The registrar could up their prices, but you "own" the domain and could just transfer it to another registrar if the existing provider did somthing you didn't likeOn these sort of services who owns the actual name/email/URL variation that you chose for your company name? I.e in the future can a provider up their charges and your stuck or you'd have to again reg with another and variate the email if the first decided to charge or increase? Part paranoid but thought I'd ask just incase as if I get established the email/URL name would be crucial
On the one hand, having registrar, DNS and hosting all with the one provider makes life easier, but on the other, having them all separate makes it easier to move things about if it goes wrong with one aspect of the provision, iyswim
You need a hosting provider and a domain registrar. Most hosting providers register domain names for you.
From there you need a website making up in a format, many use a content management system, eg WordPress
From there you have a website and a host and you either drive or push traffic to it
Hosting
There are millions of hosts. At the large end you've got the brands from Endurance like Bluehost and Hostgator. Then there's Host Europe Group with 123 Reg, TSO / Vidahost and a heap of others. Or 1and1/Fasthosts. Or just big independant hosts, eg one.com. Then there's ioMart brands, Melbourne, united Hosting/Hosting Uk.
All of these are big businesses with varying price points across their brands.
They all also offer reseller packages to other hosting providers who can sell on a service to you
Set aside from them are smaller independent hosting providers, eg 6 Degrees Group who do hosting and applications and general cloudy things
There's only really a bad choice when either
1) you're not getting good value for money
2) your provider can't or won't fix bad neighbour problems on shared servers
3) They're Ddos'd and spammed out of action
Many companies, if you give them £2/month will probably give you £24/yr's worth of service. Some may give you more for your money. Others will want a bit more folding fr you
Have a check around hosts to look at reviews on eg web hosting chat
Email - most larger providers running a decent (eg Dovecot) install will throw in an amount of addresses with your domain and give you end to end encrption on of your email. Some won't, breakimg TLS and this is important to check, Google for example will soon start rejecting tampered-with email.
There's technically nothing wrong with using your hosting provider for your email. You can, if you like back it off to cloud vendors such as Office365 and Google Apps. And you'll pay a privilege for email going missing with the former and never fully escaping with the latter. But they'll give you ease of use
After that, its kind of up to you what you put online
From there you need a website making up in a format, many use a content management system, eg WordPress
From there you have a website and a host and you either drive or push traffic to it
Hosting
There are millions of hosts. At the large end you've got the brands from Endurance like Bluehost and Hostgator. Then there's Host Europe Group with 123 Reg, TSO / Vidahost and a heap of others. Or 1and1/Fasthosts. Or just big independant hosts, eg one.com. Then there's ioMart brands, Melbourne, united Hosting/Hosting Uk.
All of these are big businesses with varying price points across their brands.
They all also offer reseller packages to other hosting providers who can sell on a service to you
Set aside from them are smaller independent hosting providers, eg 6 Degrees Group who do hosting and applications and general cloudy things
There's only really a bad choice when either
1) you're not getting good value for money
2) your provider can't or won't fix bad neighbour problems on shared servers
3) They're Ddos'd and spammed out of action
Many companies, if you give them £2/month will probably give you £24/yr's worth of service. Some may give you more for your money. Others will want a bit more folding fr you
Have a check around hosts to look at reviews on eg web hosting chat
Email - most larger providers running a decent (eg Dovecot) install will throw in an amount of addresses with your domain and give you end to end encrption on of your email. Some won't, breakimg TLS and this is important to check, Google for example will soon start rejecting tampered-with email.
There's technically nothing wrong with using your hosting provider for your email. You can, if you like back it off to cloud vendors such as Office365 and Google Apps. And you'll pay a privilege for email going missing with the former and never fully escaping with the latter. But they'll give you ease of use
After that, its kind of up to you what you put online
Edited by andy-xr on Saturday 26th March 23:16
Moominator said:
Could anyone help- muchly appreciated 
Where to start? Of course I'd like a professional url and a non-yahoo (professional) email address but where do you start? Any recommendations?
I 'heard' that if you type into google etc to see if certain names are available they are auto-registered and the price bumped up?
Start with a small local web company and stick to setting up your business - why waste time learning stuff you wont use often at such a crucial time ?Where to start? Of course I'd like a professional url and a non-yahoo (professional) email address but where do you start? Any recommendations?
I 'heard' that if you type into google etc to see if certain names are available they are auto-registered and the price bumped up?
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