Domain Registration, Hosting & Account Set-up
For your website to be seen on the internet you need three things:
…..1. a website – the layout of all the text, graphics, links & videos
…..2. a domain name – your website’s “address”
…..3. a web host – provides the space where your site will “live”
In choosing your domain name, it’s a good idea to match it to your business name. A custom web address (www.yourbusinessname.com) makes it a lot easier for your site visitors to remember and find your site, and easier for you to promote it. Combined with matching e-mail (you@yourwebaddress.com), you can advertise with every e-mail you send!
Keeping your website online requires paying an annual domain name fee for your site name along with an additional fee to host your website online typically paid monthly.
In addition to creating your site, Simply Effective will arrange and manage all your set-up details from registering your custom web name and matching e-mail addresses, to securing space and publishing your site with your web host. If you need assistance with this aspect of setting up your web site, simply ask. We’d be happy to take care of the details for you!
About Blue Host
Professional, Reliable, Affordable
No Hidden Fees — Outstanding Service for the Best Possible Price
To run WordPress you need a web host and there are thousands of them out there, the vast majority of which meet the WordPress minimum requirements. Minimum requirements just means that your host server needs to support PHP (general-purpose scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages) and MySQL (database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases).
At Simply Effective Web Design we use and recommend Bluehost as a great web hosting provider. Bluehost is a professional web hosting and domain registration service who has been providing quality web hosting solutions to businesses and individuals since 1996.
Bluehost has new customers signing up for their services daily and are currently hosting millions of domains! Why? Because they provide outstanding service for the best possible price and they are constantly innovating and upgrading their services at no additional cost to their customers.
Beyond the reasons above, we recommend Bluehost because their technology is really what sets them apart from other companies. They have their own data centre, build their own servers, and have their own nationwide fiber network. They will handle every aspect of your hosting, so you can feel confident that if there is a problem, you won’t have to worry about getting it solved.