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Choosing the right hosting and domain from the start saves you trouble and, if you ever sell the website, increases its value.
1. The domain
2. Types of Hosting
3. What to Look for Before Hiring
4. If you're going to sell the website
Which provider do you use, and how's it going? Tell us about your experience below.
1. The domain
- Short and easy to remember: Avoid unnecessary hyphens and numbers.
- Domain extension: .com is the most valuable. Country-code extensions (.es, .mx, .co) work well if your audience is local.
- History: Before buying a used one, check the Wayback Machine to see what was there before and whether it had spam or penalties.
- Renewal: Check the renewal fee, which is sometimes much higher than the registration fee.
- WHOIS Privacy: Enable this option if you do not want your information to be public.
2. Types of Hosting
- Shared: inexpensive and sufficient to get started. Performance may decrease if the server becomes overloaded.
- VPS: More resources and control. Requires some technical knowledge.
- Intended for: high-traffic websites.
- Cloud: Scales according to demand, and you pay as you go.
3. What to Look for Before Hiring
- Guaranteed uptime and automatic backups.
- Updated PHP version and free SSL.
- Support in your language and hours of operation.
- Ease of migrating the website to another provider.
4. If you're going to sell the website
- Have the domain and hosting registered in your name, with full access to the control panel.
- Prepare a full backup (files and database) to submit.
- Work with the buyer to determine how the domain transfer will be handled (authorization code, change of registrant).
Which provider do you use, and how's it going? Tell us about your experience below.