You Already Know This…

Jan 13, 2010 by igorG

When the Internet went all pretty with pictures and graphics, it meant that the mere mortals who did not care for or understand the meaning of ‘HTTP Version not supported’ could get online and create  websites.

Today it has become so easy, that you can create a website at 5pm and have lost it by 6!

I have actually done this. I setup a new website and then started messing about with Linux which managed to wipe my hard drive, by the time I had reinstalled everything I had lost all evidence of the new site, the emails were all deleted! As I remember I only found the site through sheer luck.

Now apart from this, one common mistake that is made when it comes to creating websites is to forget the fundamentals of the Internet. There are only 2 elements to a website, the registration and the hosting, and the hosting is dependent upon the registration.

Now with the Internet becoming a marketing hotbed, you are bombarded daily with offers that promise to create that million dollar website for you and its all done for you in one place.WRONG do not do it!

How many languages do you speak? As I am Scottish and my native language is a kind of English, then I am spoilt for choice as to what second language to speak, so I did not get around to choosing one. If you combine your hosting and registration then you may well have to learn a second language and do it very quickly.

Always keep your registration with a registrar in your own country, firstly they speak the same language as you and they work to a legal system that you understand.

Why is this so important?

The registration is your website, the hosting is given the name from here, it is the legal entity for your site which is why you should keep it in your country. If  your domain gets hijacked then you will have to deal with the registrar direct, not so easy when they are getting up when you are going to bed.

However if your hosting gets hijacked and its in a foreign country which you cannot deal with, this is a slightly simpler matter, change the registrars DNS settings and the hosting is dead in the water. You now have the time to sort out the hosting. If you had combined the registration and hosting then this would have been very difficult.

I recommend that you take a look at all of your websites, make a list of the registration and hosting companies, the quickest way to do this is by using www.who.is this will give you all of the site details. Then start to move all of your registrations and hostings to 2 separate companies, remembering to keep the registration in your own country.