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 Dreamhost.com—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 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. Besides hosting, domain registration and email, they also offer cloud-storage of files. This is our number one recommendation.
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Some good alternatives are:
– A2 Hosting (developer-friendly; reputed to have fast servers and great uptime)
– GreenGeeks (eco-conscious, reasonably priced and good uptime)
– Hostinger (inexpensive and decent)
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 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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Alternatives to use for sending large or many files include:
– Google Docs
– YouSendIt
– WeTransfer
