Hosting in UK or USA

by aaronjunited

Posted: 12 years ago 7 replies

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Does it matter if I host a site or register a domain with a UK or USA company?

I've been hunting around for hosting and domain name registration. I have looked at hundreds of sites, and reviews of them.

Although I tend not to trust review sites as they are supposed to be positive reviews so they get commission.

I'm looking for every ones feedback on who they use for hosting/domains.

I'll check them out and see what I think.

I need cheap domains as I've literally no money, .com and .co.uk
.com is pretty dear in my opinion but I'm looking somewhere I can get it at around £4 $5.

Thanks in advance.

#hosting #usa

Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by aaronjunited

Does it matter if I host a site or register a domain with a UK or USA company?

Yes.

If you're thinking of SEO traffic.

If it's for a primarily UK niche, then you need a domain-name that ends ".uk" and for the site to be hosted inside the UK. This will help it to rank a little more easily for searches made from google.co.uk (but probably slightly at the expense of its ranking on google.com). If it isn't, and your main SEO concern relates to your ranking on google.com, then you're better off having it hosted in the US.

For my UK-specific niche, I use Heart Internet for hosting (they're outstandingly good). For my others, I use a mixture of Hostgator, Typepad and Weebly (I like all of them).

I recommend Namecheap as a domain-name registrar (this is less important - I just like them, and their interface, and their customer service).

It's important not to register a domain-name where you're going to host it: keep these two functions separate.

Originally Posted by aaronjunited

I need cheap domains as I've literally no money, .com and .co.uk .com is pretty dear in my opinion but I'm looking somewhere I can get it at around £4 $5.

You're in luck - domain-names hardly cost anything.

Don't buy a .co.uk "just to save £1/£2" if it isn't what you specifically need - this could turn out to be a mistake! For the price of about half a cappuccino at Starbuck's, it's not worth it!

Originally Posted by aaronjunited

I tend not to trust review sites as they are supposed to be positive reviews so they get commission.

Exactly so.

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flyfox2012 12 years ago

"It's important not to register a domain-name where you're going to host it: keep these two functions separate."
Why is that? Can you please explain it? Thanks.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by flyfox2012
  
  Why is that? Can you please explain it? Thanks.
  
  Well, the forum (just like many other IM forums) is full of "horror stories" of the unforeseen "accidents" (some of them in fact "disasters") which people could so easily have avoided simply by registering and hosting in two different places. Having the registration and the hosting in the same place is really very inadvisable. In a sense, admittedly, it only really matters if/when something goes wrong. (But, as we all know, that "only happens all the time").
  
  If your host isn't also your registrar, then in the event of any accident/problem, if anything ever goes wrong with your hosting, you're in control, not them. And can avoid nightmares, disasters, long delays and entirely unexpected "ransom demands". And can re-host your site somewhere else the next day, minimising the commercial interruption.
  
  Brad expresses it very well, with several well-known examples, in this post.
  
  It's one of those issues which so many people look at and think to themselves "Eew, well, those are all other people and they must have done something wrong: it wouldn't ever happen to me".
  
  Until someone on one of their lists reports them, even with absolutely no justification at all, to their host for alleged "spamming" and their website disappears and the host (in accordance with its TOS which few people have ever read all the way through at the time they registered the domain) suddenly wants hundreds of dollars to release the domain so they can get it back online somewhere else.
  
  As a search of this forum will show, GoDaddy, in particular, is notorious for causing major problems and interruptions to its clients' businesses in this regard. But it can be done even by some "good hosts", too!
  
  The point is that "whether something goes wrong" may not be within your own control - it can be just fairly random.
  
  Paul Myers' comment in this thread is significant, also.
  
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  KenJ 12 years ago
  
  I agree with the comments above. My UK focused sites are always .co.uk. I also Host them with a UK based host that has UK servers.
  
  Note: Namecheap are fine for these uk domains but they can take up to 24 hours after purchasing before the domain name servers will kick in with a UK host.
  
  Man this sounds like I know what I am talking about
  Well only just.
  
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aaronjunited 12 years ago

Thanks once again Lexy.
I understand what you mean, it all makes sense.

Thanks Ken - so your saying Namecheap can be used for UK and USA?
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aaronjunited 12 years ago

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- Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by aaronjunited
  
  Thanks Ken - so your saying Namecheap can be used for UK and USA?
  
  Yes; he was saying this.
  
  Originally Posted by erwin78
  
  And remember the net is all around the world so it doesn't matter where you host or register your domain.
  
  This isn't right, Erwin.
  
  Google has explained openly that where you host and the domain-extension do matter, if you're concerned about your SERP's rankings.
  
  See for yourself what that nice "Yellow-Boy Cutts" has to say on the subject ...
  
  What impact does server location have on...
  
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erwin78 12 years ago

Hello everyone,

If you want to target all world you need .com domain but if it is a niche in the UK the .uk is fine.

And you can regisrer it in namecheap it is up to you, I live in the UK but I've registered my domain in godaddy and I'm happy with them.

And about hosting it doesn't matter where are you in the world I persoanly use justhost but hostgator is great too.

But if you need free hosting I like freehostia.

And remember the net is all around the world so it doesn't matter where you host or register your domain.

Anyway all the best and see you on top.

Your friend and partner Erwin.
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