"While I've have had interest in web technology since the late 90's, it was always a "I want this, how do I do it" approach as opposed to formal education."
There are three parts to hosting your domain, your website, your email, and any other service related to your domain.
Registrar: Your registrar (buying your domain name so no one else can use it).
DNS: Now that you have a domain name, where do all the services on your domain point to? This is done by what is called "DNS records". It's basically the traffic cop that routes traffic to the correct service--your email, your website, 3rd party services, etc.
Hosting: Website, email. Where's your website located? Who hosts your email? Google? Microsoft?
While I've had interest in web technology since the late 90's, it was always a "I want this, how do I do it" approach as opposed to formal education. In fact, my approach to IT has pretty much always been the same as well. My interest needs to be peaked for me to care about it. "How will it benefit me?" As a result, it helps out my career as well. I've worked with "college educated" people in the early part of my career that didn't' have a clue.
With that said, back to the subject.
Having done web support for the last 11 years, I've seen a lot of issues with hosting, the worst being Network Solutions. Take my word for it and avoid at all costs. Even when it comes to their domain registration! You could pull DNS from a 3rd party DNS provider but when their service goes down at the registrar level, you're screwed regardless of who your DNS provider is. Don't believe me? Check out their Twitter, I'm sorry, "X", account.
While I'm certain they were the one of the first out there, their technology appears to reflect it. Everything about Network Solutions appears to be old technology. Merely updating DNS records in their old and new control panels are s-l-o-w. Their domain services go out frequently and DNS propagation takes an abnormally long time. Just don't do it!
So, I'm thinking the purpose of this post wasn't to ditch all over Network Solutions. It was to express how happy I've been with the web hosting services I've received for the last five years at...
Ha! Not going to say! Do a lookup (below) on the A record for my domain and you'll be able to tell.
https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=a%3acheydesofblack.com&run=networktools
NOT! Cloudflare proxy's rule!
Just kidding.
I don't recall how I came across their services, but Hostinger offered an unbeatable deal on hosting for 4 years into the future with pretty much all you'd want aside from dedicated hosting. At some point I think I was running 6 or 7 websites from the hosting plan.
From someone who's in "control panels" all day, their control panel is extremely intuitive--seamless.
Out of curiosity, I looked up their Indeed company profile and apparently their own employees see their company in the same light, which I think says a lot. If you look up reviews on companies with crappy service, the reviews from the employees typically reflect that as well as their customers.
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Currently a Lakewood Ranch, Florida resident, Philip has authored various interactive blog websites since the early 2000’s. Most content will be based primarily on matters of opinion as usual.
