First of all, when you think of setting up a website and apart from coming up with a good name, the best thing is to register your website by yourself rather than your hosting company. This will ensure total control of your domain name in case things go wrong with your host and if you need to appoint your domain to other DNS servers with your new host.

This will safeguard your choosen name. The same advice is for hosting. I made few times the mistake that I registered my domain name with a very cheap host (the one for example that charges unlimited hosting for £10 a year or a lifetime) that I had purchased from Ebay. I thought that I was being smart and that I was saving money by going cheap. Not only were these hosts overselling space, they would dissappear from the face of the earth very soon, including the websites I worked so hard on. When purchasing shared hosting, expect to pay around £5-£10 a month which is a very reasonable price and that will keep a hosting company in business as offering hosting for next to nothing is very unrealistic. If it sounds to good to be true, it usually is as I have found out the hard way. Do a reverse DNS check with www.domaintools.com to see how many sites are on the same server as a lot of sites can actually slow down your own site.

I can therefore highly recommend the host that I am with for nearly a year now and their level of support is second to none. They offer a few hosting packages or you can even get your own VPS (virtual private server). If you are serious about your online presence, that I think that this is the way to go as it is basically your space and no other sites will be hosted on it. You will also be able to install software on the server as you will have root access. If this sounds daunting, you do not need to worry as webhostinguk.com offers a fully managed VPS and will install any software on your behalf. Click banner below to check out hosting with Webhostinguk.com

The registrar that I use is domainmonster and you can fully manage your domain names with them and co.uk extentions will cost around £6 for 2 years and .com names will cost around £10 for a year. Click banner below to get to your domain name now.

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