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If I use Homestead, why would I need Hostgator?

by madelyndon
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I'm switching from weebly to homestead to build my website, but I see they include the hosting. I already use hostgator, so am I missing something here? Should I cancel with hostgator, or is there some advantage to keeping it separate? :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Henshaw
    If you are considering free hosting, compared with paid hosting, then use the paid option every time.

    I suggest that you stay with Hostgator and make sure that you buy your domain name elsewhere, such as NameCheap. Then point your domain to your paid hosting.

    I'm not sure if I've answered your question as I have no experience of either Weebly or Homestead, but I understand that they are, amongst other options, website creation packages.

    Regards,
    Jeff.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    I have no idea what the hosting capabilities, price or reliability of Homestead is, but you'd want to make absolutely sure it's at least as good as Hostgator before deciding on whether to host your site there.
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  • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
    I have accounts with about 10 different hosting companies. Hostgator is the best, by FAR. I thought hostgator was just hype by a lot of people in internet marketing, since there are lots of myths and hype revolving many things, that I would never recommend to anyone else. However, after trying it, they are the clear winner.

    I am a bit baffled on why you would even use weebly... let alone move to homestead?
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    • Profile picture of the author madelyndon
      Thanks everyone - I plan to stick with hostgator.

      The reason I started with weebly, is I am very new to this and wanted an easy site builder. Let me tell you and every newbie that knows nothing about websites - weebly is soooo easy! I just tried homestead and it doesn't touch weebly, as far as ease of use. I just want to be able to have a website and start building content. With weebly, in one night I had it going and could focus on the content.

      Now I really didn't like that weebly takes 50% of my adsense revenue, but now I'm thinking that if I ever get really big, I will just hire someone to build my website again using wordpress. For now, weebly gets it done but I just hope I don't run into problems down the road. The one thing I'm sure of, as I continue to focus on this issue, I'm not moving forward with my website. I'm just going to have to move on and stick with hostgator and weebly.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim_Carter
    Use Cpanel in Hostgator to install Wordpress and build sites with that.

    There are all kinds of free themes and it is easy to use. Lots of free resources on how to use Wordpress.
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