registering domain name at same hosting site bad?

If you host all your websites with one web hosting provider you may face serious problems if the company is unreliable. If they have downtime, all your websites will be not working.

You can eliminate this risk by purchasing a hosting package from several web hosts. On the other hand, this solution is not too cheap.

Never buy a domain through your host, unless you can trust that host 110%.

I won't recommend you either. Buy a domain with godaddy or any other registrar of your choice and host with another compancy (hostgator, bluehost etc)

Yes, it's quite dangerous, in principle.

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, Goooooo - daddy, 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.

I am using godaddy to purchase domain because they got nice domain control panel, for hosting space i use blue host or host gator, they have cheap packages and not recommended for buying domain names.

Use Hostgator for hosting your sites and Namecheap to buy domain names. This is the best combination.

Spread out your risk. Use a different registrar than your hosting.

Adam

Just stick with Namecheap or GoDaddy. Those two have been the most reliable in my experience. Sometimes if you buy your domain through your host and then because of a downturn of support or some other reason you decide to ditch the host, it can nullify the special offer of the domain you bought. Not a great situation to be in if you are really attached to the domain.

I always buy my names from Namecheap.com and then host them with Hostgator. I currently have 12 sites registered and running this way. I am very pleased with the way this works and will continue to build my IM presence the same way.

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Mikey (hooora) why would you say that GoDaddy is bad for domains? I agree I'd never ever get their hosting (I've lost hair dealing with their hosting) but they have some sick domain deals sometimes

Personally I like godaddy for domain registration and others for hosting

I like to register my domains with namecheap and host at either hostgator or hostmonster..... I am happy with this combination a lot.

One question I have about namecheap is pricing structure, they said $3.99 per domain or whatever but what about renewals and privacy? (Is it still cheap if you have 50 domains with privacy?)

I prefer to separate them.