I have been registering and developing websites for a while now.  I started my first site in 2000.   At the time I was a flight instructor and had asked one of my flight students where he registered his domain.  He told me, “Discount Domain Registry.com.”  I really didn’t look around, get reviews or ask any questions. I just went there and registered.  At the end of the registration the site prompted me to use their partner, Successful Hosting.com, which I did.  Now I have to say, before I go on,  that Successful Hosting tech support has been awesome!

In a lot of way registering and hosting sites becomes very habitual.  I mean that by, you tend to use the same service companies again and again because each site is a little different and there is a slight learning curve with some of the technicalities.  You tend to get used to one particular site, even if it isn’t very good.

I’ll make this short….I am now in the process of moving some 20+ sites to a new host and domain service.   I wish I had really reviewed good domain registration services and hosting providers before picking the ones that I did.  I am now moving to Host Gator after hearing some pretty good things about them and their prices / support.

Lesson:

Please choose your domain service and hosting providers carefully