Best place to register a website address?

[bearman68]

Hi all.
Since you people on here know everything, about everything, can someone tell me the best (easiest) place to register a website name please. We had lots of trouble with the last one (Namecheap), and I'm still not sure it's correctly registered after 2 yrs or so.
And what's the best website builder these days?

Thanks

[miniman]

I'm very happy with TSOHost.

[The Mad Monk]

Was it cheap web hosting sites that you wanted?

https://tinyurl.com/k45fmhc

[jammy-git]

The Mad Monk said:

Was it cheap web hosting sites that you wanted?

https://tinyurl.com/k45fmhc

WOW PC Mag have a shocking website!


I'd use Namecheap or Google Domains.

Cheaper alternatives might work for others 9 times out of 10, but I've heard many stories of people getting caught out.

[ReverendCounter]

Possibly free for the first year with 1&1 - is that any good?

https://www.1and1.co.uk

[Frimley111R]

Got mine with Reg123

[Fore Left]

jammy-git said:

WOW PC Mag have a shocking website!

Do you use an ad-blocker? If so, they load the mobile site just to piss you off. Try installing uBlock Origin Extra. That fixed it for me.

[sgtBerbatov]

Namecheap are the way to go.

I've used 123-Reg for nearly 10 years but they've gone to hell altogether now.

[ctrph]

I use lcn.com for all mine now. Used to use 123reg but found lcn better and cheaper

[bearman68]

Thank you very much for the replies.

Offer me a bit more advice if you will.

If I use a website builder such as Wix.com - how do I register the website? Do I need to register the web name, build the website in Wix,and then marry the 2 together? (and if so how?), or have I got the wrong end of the stick here.
Apologies if this is a very simple question, but as you can see, this is not my strong point.

Many Thanks everyone.

[Brainpox]

It depends on the service and whether they allow it.

In the case of Wix, I found this in their support pages: https://www.wix.com/domain/connect-domain

They also appear to offer a service where they register the domain for you.

[jammy-git]

Please, please, please, don't use a website builder like Wix. It might look pretty but under the hood it's all kinds of mess. If you have any interest in working well with Google, other search engines and social media platforms you won't want to use Wix.

Get your domain and hosting from a company like Krystal Hosting.
From there you'll get a control panel from which you can install Wordpress in one click.
From there you can get a theme from the likes of ThemeForest - look for one with a page builder if you have to to make things simple.
If you go with Krystal, install the LiteSpeed plugin. It'll make your website pages load in < 1s and your customers and Google will love you.

[bitchstewie]

Registering and hosting aren't the same thing and don't have to be done by the same company.

My personal view is that you should pick a good registrar to register your domain and a good host for whatever thing you want to do with it.

So for example for bearman68.com you may want to:

• register bearman68.com at TSO or 34SP
• use Office 365 or Google Apps for the email
• use someone else for hosting the website

First step is register the domain name - TSO or 34SP are absolutely fine for that.

I've heard the odd bad story about hosting websites at TSO, we do so and I've had no issue with it.

I know others who use 34SP and swear by them too.

[bitchstewie]

anonymous said:

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You can register with Google.

I think they work with hosting companies to make it a bit simpler to get started, I don't think they host stuff directly.

[jammy-git]

anonymous said:

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Google Domains is a good service.

Through Google My Business you can create a free website. I believe they are quite basic, but in all honesty I don't know much about this service.

[jammy-git]

If it's all static, look at free hosting with Github: https://pages.github.com/

[bearman68]

jammy-git said:

Please, please, please, don't use a website builder like Wix. It might look pretty but under the hood it's all kinds of mess. If you have any interest in working well with Google, other search engines and social media platforms you won't want to use Wix.

Get your domain and hosting from a company like Krystal Hosting.
From there you'll get a control panel from which you can install Wordpress in one click.
From there you can get a theme from the likes of ThemeForest - look for one with a page builder if you have to to make things simple.
If you go with Krystal, install the LiteSpeed plugin. It'll make your website pages load in < 1s and your customers and Google will love you.

Are Wix really that bad? Their website is lovely to use, and there's lot's of free pics and things. Wordpress looks a bit complicated

[jammy-git]

You'll get a half decent looking website, but it's pretty bad for SEO.

[SCEtoAUX]

bearman68 said:

Are Wix really that bad? Their website is lovely to use, and there's lot's of free pics and things. Wordpress looks a bit complicated

Wordpress isn't complicated, it just needs a little bit of time invested along with reading some tutorials on the web.

In a nutshell you have a theme that determines how a site looks, and then you have pages and posts which provide the content. Pages tend to be for static things that won't change much and posts tend to be "bloggy" type things.

I reckon anyone who can use a mouse and keyboard could quite easily be perfectly competent with Wordpress in five or six hours.

[akirk]

I am amazed that anyone is recomme ding technology and solutions without knowing what you are trying to do...
- work out business goal
- how will website support that goal
- what does website need to be / do
- what technology will best support that functional need

there are business for whom Wix works well, for others wordpress may be the answer, for some shopify or bigCommerce, for some a bespoke solutions. is needed, but start from the business needs...

Edited by akirk on Saturday 25th November 23:25