Web Hosting
Every website needs domain registration and web hosting and it’s quite a good idea to purchase both through the same company. If you already have domain registration purchased before you sign up for hosting, however, the domain can be pointed to find your website at a different hosting company.
We recommend the following two hosting companies—and will include the costs of moving your new website to live within the website design quote for websites that are to be hosted by either of them:
DREAMHOST
Dreamhost offer advanced options that practically no other hosting companies do and they are ahead of the pack in keeping their software and security in top form. They make automated updates on your behalf and will revert your website to previous software versions if their robots detect any malfunction. Their control panel is slightly more suited to programmers than to non-programmers but it is getting more user-friendly as time goes on. This is our number one recommendation.
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BLUEHOST
Our number two pick for most website needs, Bluehost also provide excellent hosting—fast, reliable, a control panel that is user-friendly and with decent tech support. They try to get you to sign up for extras but for most shared-hosting needs, their basic plan has everything you need.
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File Sharing
Sending a few files as email attachments is fine but when you have a lot of large files to share for an online project, a dedicated cloud-based file sharing service is a far better option.
DROPBOX
Dropbox is our preferred file-sharing platform and while we can set you up with a folder in our account, you may wish to set up your own account.
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