Starting your own business creating a website and email help
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Dilligaf10 said:
We used daily.co.uk and it was a pain free experience for little cost.
Site seems unable to register/take payment etc ! Shame really as it looked simple enough and cost effective. No telephone helpline until I'm registered !Bad sign. I'm oot !
Anyone have another suggestion ?
T5XARV said:
Site seems unable to register/take payment etc ! Shame really as it looked simple enough and cost effective. No telephone helpline until I'm registered !
Bad sign. I'm oot !
Anyone have another suggestion ?
NamecheapBad sign. I'm oot !
Anyone have another suggestion ?
Godaddy
1and1
Theres lots of competition, so plenty of choice, domains cost £5-£10 for a year, and no, if you type them into google the price won't go up!
jonamv8 said:
Dont use 1&1 or godaddy...!
Spend £50 a year on some decent ish hosting on a shared server with a company who offer good customer support, so not 123reg either! Evo or Heart for me, not just a number and customer support are very helpful
Just to echo the above. Spend £50 a year on some decent ish hosting on a shared server with a company who offer good customer support, so not 123reg either! Evo or Heart for me, not just a number and customer support are very helpful
However, I do have one domain hosted with 123 reg and it hasn't caused me any issues... this seems to be an anomaly though.
anonymous said:
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Just go to easily.co.uk - type in the name you want and it'll tell you if it's free. If it's not, it'll tell you who owns it.ETA they charge upwards of £5 a year to register. I've used them for 19 years and have registered over 20 domain names with them.
Edited by GetCarter on Monday 22 February 17:48
Never use a third party to check URL availability always do it yourself. Once you have your URL if you need ecommerce look at shopify if you dont need ecommerce then pick a local webby for a wordpress site.
The DIY guys like GoDaddy etc are slightly cheaper than a "proper" webby but the extra is money well spent.
The DIY guys like GoDaddy etc are slightly cheaper than a "proper" webby but the extra is money well spent.
I use TSOHost for buying domains, hosting domains and hosting email. I currently host 6 domains with them and they have been faultless all the way through. Any queries I've had I've opened a support ticket and I've got a reply within 24hrs.
You can install Wordpress onto your domain, and download a free theme to get yourself started if you're not coding savvy. There are also countless videos on YouTube that explain in great detail how to implement and create an exciting Wordpress site, along with countless features.
You can install Wordpress onto your domain, and download a free theme to get yourself started if you're not coding savvy. There are also countless videos on YouTube that explain in great detail how to implement and create an exciting Wordpress site, along with countless features.
This is something I can offer myself if you're interested
My £80 a year for a domain, hosting and email accounts isn't the cheapest, but most of my clients know where I live and have my personal email and phone number to sort out issues which they appreciate
Drop me a line if you want some advice (which is free)
My £80 a year for a domain, hosting and email accounts isn't the cheapest, but most of my clients know where I live and have my personal email and phone number to sort out issues which they appreciate
Drop me a line if you want some advice (which is free)
anonymous said:
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Do you have a server to run it from?PM me, I'll get it set up for you in your name at no charge from me (you will obviously have to pay the registration cost - but this could be just a few quid). I've had a couple of beers (to stop myself being able to drive and see a Aston Martin DBS I would no doubt have spent £100k on this afternoon) so now is a good time!
Dead easy
Office 365 will take care of your emails (2.50 per month) - you can set up alias email accounts so for example accounts@xyx.com and sales@xyz.com even if you just have one account for yourname@xyz.com
Obviously first you need a URL and 123-reg.com is fine - £6.99 per annum.
Then you need a web site. 123-reg hosting is fine. With this you can create a free wordpress site in about an hour as just about everything is done for you.
The great thing with all the above is that you can move it/change your site with ease without further charges or lock in. The website belongs to you.
If you need any help I am happy to give you a hand without cost to set up your email - it would literally take me 10 minutes. PM me if you want.
Office 365 will take care of your emails (2.50 per month) - you can set up alias email accounts so for example accounts@xyx.com and sales@xyz.com even if you just have one account for yourname@xyz.com
Obviously first you need a URL and 123-reg.com is fine - £6.99 per annum.
Then you need a web site. 123-reg hosting is fine. With this you can create a free wordpress site in about an hour as just about everything is done for you.
The great thing with all the above is that you can move it/change your site with ease without further charges or lock in. The website belongs to you.
If you need any help I am happy to give you a hand without cost to set up your email - it would literally take me 10 minutes. PM me if you want.
anonymous said:
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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 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
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