A host in action. The worlds 1.2 billion+ websites are stored on computers like these.
Choosing website hosting is like choosing an energy supplier, lots of providers, lots of diffrent packages and lots of diffrent rates. Just like finding an energy provider you need to do your own research on finding the best hosting packages for your needs.
Hosting Review & Comparison Sites
Some of these are genuine and give great comparisons, some link to hosting companies only because they pay affiliate commissions to the review site. No matter how good the review take a good hard look at what you are buying and find geniune user reviews before you commit yourself.
The two things you need to check when looking at any hosting plan are the storage space (is it big enough for your website) and the bandwidth (this limits how much traffic your site can handle). If you exceed the allocations your host sets you're charged an extra fee.
Do your research because typically most companies will ask for a commitment of at least a year for hosting your website. Hosting is not expensive but having to change hosts after a few months is a hassle you really don't need and can be avioded by choosing carefully in the first place.
Who Our Hosts Are.
To find out who hosts a website go to Hosting Checker, type in www.mekatrig.com and you will see we use GoDaddy, this is the host have used for many years and the one we recommend, they are the worlds largest web hosts with over 17 million customers and employ about 6000 people worldwide.
Visit ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) WHOIS lookup site, which lists who owns websites and gives all the owners details (which is why we recommend buying privacy when you buy your domain) and you will see that this website has been with GoDaddy since February 2006, that's 11+ years and we've never had an issue, down time or any other problems with any of our sites.
In addition they are cheap and have a 24/7 telephone support line so if we do need some info we can always speak to a real human being (even at 4am).
We recommend GoDaddy because we use them, they work for us so they should work for you too.GoDaddy have an easy WordPress installation wizard called the Installatron which makes publishing your website a quick and easy process. Take a look at the video at the end of this article.
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Getting A Hosting Plan With GoDaddy
Go to the GoDaddy Website! open the account you created when you bought your domain name.
Click on hosting and click the get started button, we recommend the deluxe hosting package. At the time of writing it's £7.99 a month but GoDaddy has frequent discounts so you may get it cheaper.
Choosing this plan allows you to increase the size of your website without worrying about storage or bandwidth and you have the option to add more domains and build more websites in the future without buying any more hosting. Choose the period you want it for then go to the checkout.
To give you an idea of costs: Registering our demonstration domain name, www.mikesgaff, for 2 years and buying one months deluxe hosting would cost £26.63, then £7.99 a month for the hosting if we renew monthly.
If we took out a hosting package for 2 years in advance it would cost £143.98 which works out at £6.00 a month.