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Don't make a mistake when choosing a web hosting service!
Read these horror stories that actually happened to people I know.
Horror story 1.
When I first got on the web I was strictly limited by price, but going for the cheap web hosting provider ended up being more expensive. I choose my first web host because they were cheap, but sounded good. Then I created my web site and finally I was ready to send traffic to it. After submitting to all the top search engines.
I then decided on an extensive off line campaign. The ads were placed in the newspapers all I had to do was sit back and wait for the orders.
Aghast! my web hosting service went down for two whole days.
I wasted all my advertising money and was made to look like a complete amateur (which I was..) I never really knew how much I lost but that was the end of my cheap hosting ideas.
Horror story 2.
I created my site and uploaded it to a free web host provider. Everything started ok and I even got a couple of orders.
But then I started to get email complaints about the rude content on my web site. Confused because there was nothing rude on my site, I logged in and looked at the URL and right on the front page was an in your face advert for a sex site.
Someone had hacked in and taken over my site with their adult details.
Horror story 3.
I recently received a request to look at someone’s site with a view to getting them more traffic. They had spent the last 15 months building up there business and were doing ok.
When I looked at the site the first thing I did was to check the domain registration (some times people don’t realise that there domain name is about to expire). Any way the domain name was registered to a different name than the person I was dealing with, further investigation showed that the person who setup the site had registered the domain name in their name and address and was the legal owner of the site that was being built up by the person I was dealing with.
The moral here is to always make sure that if someone else registers your domain name, make sure they register it in your name or company name and address
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