A Question on Domain Registration and Hosting

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Amidst all the Godaddy thrashing, I have a few questions to fellow Warriors.

1. A few folks have advised, 'NEVER HOST WHERE YOU REGISTER'. I have always had all my sites at Hostgator and I registered my domains through them, (I think it is called Rocket Registry or something). So is that a bad pratice?

2. I will be releasing a product soon on Clickbank and I would like to know the best of going about it.

a. Register the domain from Namecheap?
b. Have the hosting via Hostgator?

Eric Lorence mentioned, spread your domains across different registrars, what does it mean?

Thanks,
Dan
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  • Profile picture of the author Gene Pimentel
    Accessibility. If you have the domain and hosting at the same place and their service crashes, you lose both. If you have your domain registered at one place and have hosting at another, you can point your domain to a different host if the current host crashes.

    I'm using the term 'crashes' loosely. There are many reasons a registrar/webhost can suddenly go offline and leave you stranded.
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  • Profile picture of the author Neil Morgan
    Hey Gene

    What would happen if your registrar disappeared up the swanee, because then you couldn't change the DNS. Or could you?

    Cheers,

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    • Profile picture of the author Gene Pimentel
      Originally Posted by Neil Morgan View Post

      Hey Gene

      What would happen if your registrar disappeared up the swanee, because then you couldn't change the DNS. Or could you?

      Cheers,

      Neil
      Neil, this has happened several times in the recent past... where a well known registrar suddenly throws in the towel. Fortunately, there is usually a backup system in place where the domains registered at that failed registrar get moved to another registrar. You may lost accessibility for a short while, but the domain will still function 100% and your site will not suffer.
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      • Profile picture of the author TheCren
        I currently use GoDaddy for my registrar and BlueHost for my hosting, but from now on I will be using NameCheap as a registrar - heard great things about them here on WF - and either Lunar Pages or Host Monster for my hosting - not that I don't like BlueHost, but I've used the 5 site limit already and both Lunar Pages and Host Monster offer better plans (also looking into Host Papa).

        Originally Posted by Gene Pimentel View Post

        Neil, this has happened several times in the recent past... where a well known registrar suddenly throws in the towel. Fortunately, there is usually a backup system in place where the domains registered at that failed registrar get moved to another registrar. You may lost accessibility for a short while, but the domain will still function 100% and your site will not suffer.
        Good to know!
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    You now, while I wouldn't do it myself, if you just need a basic hosting setup, I don't feel godaddy is all that bad anymore. I've seen lots of phpLD users who used godaddy for both hosting and domain name, and it seemed to be fine, and I don't see people complaining so much anymore.
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    • Profile picture of the author Gene Pimentel
      Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

      You now, while I wouldn't do it myself, if you just need a basic hosting setup, I don't feel godaddy is all that bad anymore. I've seen lots of phpLD users who used godaddy for both hosting and domain name, and it seemed to be fine, and I don't see people complaining so much anymore.
      You're in a dark room. Turn on the lights to see what's around you.

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  • Profile picture of the author Neil Morgan
    Fortunately, there is usually a backup system in place where the domains registered at that failed registrar get moved to another registrar.
    Cool - I always wondered about that.

    Or maybe it would be possible to use an intermediate DNS provider that then forwards to your hosting.

    Oh, I don't know if that is even technically possible, I'm just thinking aloud

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  • Profile picture of the author yourreviewer
    I am still DUMB . What does spreading your domains across different registrars mean? Does that mean it is better to have site1 registered in one registrar, site 2 in another registrar and so on? Also most of you over here mention about having your hosting in Bluehost, Host Monster and Lunar Pages. What is your opinion on Hostgator? I have used Hostgator and so far they seem to be good.
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    • Profile picture of the author Gene Pimentel
      Originally Posted by yourreviewer View Post

      I am still DUMB . What does spreading your domains across different registrars mean? Does that mean it is better to have site1 registered in one registrar, site 2 in another registrar and so on? Also most of you over here mention about having your hosting in Bluehost, Host Monster and Lunar Pages. What is your opinion on Hostgator? I have used Hostgator and so far they seem to be good.
      It depends on the context of why this was said. Often, the reason someone recommends that you spread your domains around to different registrars is for SEO purposes, especially if you're linking them together and/or backlinking them. If you had 20 domains at the same registrar that contain the same WHOIS info, you may not get as good of a SERP when linking them together as you would if they appeared to be separately owned sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author dvduval
      Originally Posted by yourreviewer View Post

      I am still DUMB . What does spreading your domains across different registrars mean? Does that mean it is better to have site1 registered in one registrar, site 2 in another registrar and so on? Also most of you over here mention about having your hosting in Bluehost, Host Monster and Lunar Pages. What is your opinion on Hostgator? I have used Hostgator and so far they seem to be good.
      Not different registrars, different hosts. This gives you multiple IP addresses so that google doesn't see all your sites as one cluster.
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