After I did my webinar on “Turn Your Website Into a Lead Generation Machine!”, many of you have been asking me about some of the other details about getting your own website up and running. I realized that a blog would be the most efficient answer to that question.
Where to Buy Your URLS – I prefer to buy my URLs from GoDaddy because I can almost always find a promo code online for them that will save me anywhere from 10-40% off the url I’m purchasing, plus they will email me to tell me when something is expiring and then when I go to renew I can find promo codes again. So I go there because they are cheaper. Plain and simple.
BUT I DO NOT HOST WITH THEM!! I did host with them and they were constantly migrating my site from server to server and breaking my site in the process then insisting they didn’t do it. I requested that they notify me of any move to a new server BEFORE it happened (since they had just broken my site for the 4th time) and they repeatedly ignored that request. They forced my one-day sale to become a three day sale because they migrated my site in the middle of the sale and broke it so badly that I couldn’t make any changes to it for 48 hours while they tried to put the pieces back together again. In short – they suck. Don’t host there.
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Bluehost.com – I LOVE them. I’ve been working with them for over 5 years now and I’ve never (NOT ONCE) had a problem. In fact, just yesterday, I went to update my Wordpress site and broke my entire site. I thought I had an automatic backup on the site and it turns out that I hadn’t actually activated it – only installed it, so no backups! Uh-oh. Crap. So I contacted BlueHost and it turns out that they had a daily a weekly and a monthly backup for my site. In less than 12 hours, they had restored the site I broke. I love them. (And, yes, I’ve made sure the backup is active now.)
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