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Some web hosting plans force us to pay for a year up
front to get the good pricing. Why would a hosting
company care if we pay monthly or yearly? After all
if we're happy with them we're going to end up
staying much longer than a year.
They do that because of advertising trick or because
most have horrible support, slow servers, or even
tons of downtime. If we were paying month to month
we're not going to stick around, but if we paid for
a year up front what are we going to do? We won't
get our money back so we have no choice but to stay
with them.
Do
not join a host that includes a free domain name
with their hosting package, and never purchase our
domain name from a hosting provider, unless we are
positive they will be putting our information in the
WHOIS.
If
our information isn't in the whois they could
blackmail us into staying with them. For all
technical purposes whoever has their information in
the whois is the owner. A domain owner doesn't go by
who paid for it; it goes by whose information is on
the whois. To check a whois on the domain go to
http://www.allwhois.com, type "domainname.com"
and click submit. Whoever's address, email, and
phone number shows up is the domain owner.
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