Where your website and email live. If a domain is the “deed” to your website, the hosting is the “rent” for the structure, the traffic (visits and mail), the plumbing and the power.
Does your host adhere to certain standards so that if another developer logged into the control panel they wouldn't have to read the manual?
When setting up a new site, you have several options before you go live. Here are some pros and cons to your choices.
Does it make more sense to set up your domain name information all at the registrar or point it all to the nameservers?
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A client of mine had three websites hosted at BlueHost. One day they were all down. She called BlueHost and they said, "Sorry, due to a hardware failure, all of your files are gone." Forever, irretrievable, vanished, gonzo, later, sayonara, oh, yeah, sorry. Ouch.
We were having trouble with a site's memory limits. We had a dozen or so plugins running, but nothing out of the ordinary, and we kept hitting memory limits. What to do? Switch hosts.
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A client couldn't access her site in Mexico. I thought maybe it was just her laptop, but she'd try it from someone else's computer, then an Internet cafe and still nada.
Here are the steps I use when I set up a new site in WordPress. Lots of steps, plugins, options, settings, installations and configurations, but you'll be ready for prime time.
You have your files and database backed up and restored to your new host. Now it's time to tell the domain to point to the new host.
Now that you have your files and database backed up from your previous host, we need to upload them (or "restore" them) to the new host.
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With GoDaddy's Deluxe Hosting, you can set up an unlimited amount of websites. Using their auto installer for WordPress, you can have your WordPress site up in under ten minutes.