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Leaving your Web hosting company can be a lot like leaving a romantic relationship. Feelings may have been hurt. Things might get messy in the process. In the end, you’ll find yourself a new partner. So let’s look at the anything-but-fun process of switching Web hosting companies in the terms of a relationship breakup. Sometimes all it takes is a fresh perspective to make a painful process a little bit easier.
Here is a step-by-step process for “breaking up” with your current Web hosting company:
Step 1: Talk it over and try to work things out.
Before you make a rash decision and subject yourself to the stress of starting over with a new Web hosting company, see if you can work out your problems with your current company. Perhaps there was a simple misunderstanding and you can work things out and they’ll be able to solve your problem and make it up to you. Even if you can’t, at least you’ll always know that you tried. [click to continue…]
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TLD map for ccTLDs and region-specific sTLDs - Click on image to view larger version. Credit: Wikimedia.org
Below you can find a list of all top level domains (TLDs) currently available, and which you may be able to register.* This list is broken down into three groups:
- gTLDs (generic TLDs which can be registered by anyone)
- ccTLDs (country code TLDs dedicated to specific countries or regions)
- sTLDs (sponsored TLDs dedicated to industries or other groups)
List of All gTLDs
- .BIZ – restricted for business use
- .COM
- .INFO
- .NAME – reserved for use by individuals
- .NET
- .ORG
- .PRO – restricted to credentialed professionals
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You’re about to launch your first website or blog. You need Web hosting. You compare several Web hosting packages from different companies. Which should you choose? And really, does it even matter? After all, they’ll all put your website up on the Internet for everyone to see. In a worst case scenario, you can just switch to another hosting company later anyway, right?
Well, technically yes. You can switch Web hosting companies. But are you prepared for the royal pain in the neck it might be? Are you tech-savvy enough to do a site transfer yourself? Do you have the extra money to have a new hosting company do the transfer for you (some charge and some don’t)? Do you really want to trust them to get your site moved for you without any quirks along the way? [click to continue…]
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