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Reasons for separating domain provider from hosting provider

by HellaFamous
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Seen a few threads on here asking if users should use godaddy, hostgator, whatever for both domain purchases and hosting.

One of the responses i've seen is "I never have my domain name, and hosting with the same provider". I was just wanting to know why not exactly?

Whether you're with provder a, provider b or provider c. If their hosting goes down, your entire site goes down regardless of where you purchased your domain name or am i mistaken?

Is it just the simple mental aspect of "having all your eggs in one basket" ?

For myself and i'm sure other noobs as well, I'm happy to pay a premium for familiarity, convenience, and simplicity. It's tedious enough to get blogs, landpages, estores setup and populated. I sure as heck don't want to be struggling at the hosting layer of the process.

thoughts?
#domain #hosting #provider #reasons #separating
  • Profile picture of the author EPoltrack77
    lol, no

    The only reason is cpanel platform. Godaddy last I knew did not offer cpanel hosting panel and the average person does not no html code so having the cpane is very, very important.
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  • Profile picture of the author louiem
    Some hosting companies offer domain names but they usually put restrictions or make it difficult to change the DNS settings.

    A domain name registrar usually don't have such restrictions as they don't care where you host your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnVianny
    EASY!

    It's better having a provider for domains so you can have all in a platform

    And another for hosting cause there could be issues with hosting providers, and you need to change it whenever you want without losing domains due to the fact that hosting providers make the procedure as much complicated as possibile.

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  • Profile picture of the author Hatuko
    I think it's better to register domains with a different company, because the domain is, say, a more "stable" service that you don't need to change often or at all (especially they have good nameservers or you use better 3rd party nameservers such as CloudFlare, Amazon etc, as I do). In most cases you "set and forget" it (apart from paying the annual fee). The hosting instead is something you are more likely to change if you become unhappy with the performance, the support, they get hacked/DDoS'ed or something else. So this way you can change the hosting service easily without having to also transfer the domain(s). You change the service and then just update the DNS settings of the domains so they point to the new service.

    I also suggest to use a specialised Anycast DNS service as the DNS service provided by most domain registrars and hosting companies is not great. The problem of course is that you have to use multiple logins to manage these separate services...
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  • Profile picture of the author aizaku
    too be honest I don't know why I separate the two.

    i just did it because everyone else was doing it.

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  • Profile picture of the author Frank Donovan
    Keeping them separate is a sensible practice. If your hosting company decides you've transgressed their terms of service (whether you did or didn't) your account could be suspended. With your domain also registered by that company, you'd lose access to it. If it were registered elsewhere, you could just transfer the domain to a different host and continue with your business.

    It might seem an unlikely scenario, but if you search around, you'll discover a few horror stories about businesses suddenly losing access - and sales - due to hosting mixups or service disputes. Better to be safe than sorry.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeremusic
    My experience on this. I have hosting with separate provider than my domain name. I did a website update via wordpress. The site crashed and burned. I had ftp access but still couldn't get it right. I had to put in a support ticket. Took about 36 hours to get corrected, BUT within 5 minutes of realizing my site wouldn't be online for a while, I'd already forwarded my domain name (which was out in lots of advertising) to another website where I could receive the traffic. Moral of the story, I didn't ever appear offline to the traffic, and as soon as the website was back up I simply updated the forwarding in Godaddy.
    I hope this helps you decide.
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  • Profile picture of the author virtualglobalphone
    More flexibility and option to move from one host to another or one register to another. Gives more control towards your highly dynamic and unreliable business today!!

    Companies change their attitude , service , price overnight .. so as a small and medium business its better to separate and distribute the need including domain and hosting.
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