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Defensive Webhosting and Domain Name Registration

By Jorge Chavez

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Published: 18Nov2009
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If you are going to do much of anything on the Internet, sooner or later you will need domain names and web hosting. There are lots of suppliers of domain name registration and web hosting space out there. Some are better than others. And there are some things you should know about managing domain names and web hosting so that YOU stay in control.

According to Murphy's Law, things tend to go wrong. And they do so at the worst possible time and when you least expect it. There is a silent war going on between web hosts and hackers. The web hosts generally win, but not always. When they lose they can be offline for a week or more.

Your data can be destroyed in a hacker attack. Moreover, fires, earthquakes, storms can physically destroy servers and their data.

How do you protect yourself? You need redundancy and alternative recovery routes. There are certain rules you should follow. These are (heretofore) unwritten rules that will protect you from nasty surprises and give you maximum control and protection. Here they are:

1. The vendors of web hosting and domain name registration who advertise the most, push hardest, are easiest to find, are the most expensive. [Someone must pay for their promotional costs; it ends up being the customers who pay.]

2. Never get your domain name and your web hosting from the same place. Keep them separate.

[The reason is that web hosts occasionally have problems and their servers go down. If your registrar for domain names is separate, you can simply redirect your domain's DNS pointers at the Registrar, upload the files and have your site up and running on a different webhost in minutes.

If your web hosting provider and your domain name provider are the same company, when problems come up (as has happened to me on 3 separate occasions, 3 different webhosts in the last 4 years) the webhost will be tied up trying to fix the problem and will be unavailable for contact. It is not in their best interest to redirect your domain and lose you as a customer for web hosting. Your hands will be tied and you can be stuck with the problem.

With a separate registration service, YOU are in charge and your interests rule. With domain registration and web hosting all at one supplier, that supplier will be in charge, and their interests will rule!]

3. Always have more than one webhosting account, each with capacity to handle the rest of your domains. This for redundancy and alternatives.

[For example, you might have 2-3 different web hosting accounts, each with different web hosts and on servers at different locations. Each of the accounts should have the capacity to host all of your domains and websites. Then if one webhost goes down, you can immediately move all your websites, that were on that webhost, to another of your web hosting accounts.

You will be able do this without having to ask anyone or open another account. You can do it at 2AM on Sunday morning on a holiday weekend if need be. That way you are in control and relatively sure of being able to always keep your websites up and running.]

4. Always have a recent copy of each of your websites on your hard disk so YOU can restore that site anywhere, anytime. If you are in Internet Marketing, those websites are your lifeblood, your source of income. YOU need to have control of up-loadable copies of each of your websites so that you can keep them functional.

5. Backup your hard disk frequently.

[Either get a portable hard drive to use for backup, make CD's or store backup files online at a secure location.]

Accidents, problems, disasters happen. Follow the above rules and you will minimize the chances of their wiping out your Internet income.

Jorge Chavez is a researcher, writer and Internet Entrepreneur. For more information on how to increase your chances of making money and profit while avoiding problems and losses, visit his earn cash online blogsite. To find the best cheap web hosting check out this best cheap web hosting resource.

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