All about building and managing your website
Making Sure Your Church Chooses The Right Web Hosting Company
The normal thing for a church to find hosting is to go to their favorite search engine and do a search. This is how most of us find everything online these days. Google and Yahoo have turned into some of our best friends. This is great, but do you really know who you are buying from? The normal brick an mortar store only has a potential clientele within a radius of its physical location. The problem with Online businesses is that you really don’t know where you are purchasing from.
The internet is not this way. You may type in “Christian hosting for churches” in your browser and be taken to a site that looks legit and is really located on some remote island somewhere. While that may not always be a negative, it usually is. The web is a very interesting place and with it comes great opportunity and great chance for aggravation.
There are many things that you can look out for when looking for a hosting company. Specifically when you are looking for a Christian Web Host. Churches often get scammed with their web hosting. This leads us to write this article to help you along the way.
Be weary of: -Web hosting companies that register your domain and put it in their name and not yours… -Unlimited plans without any documentation… -Poorly designed sites that show that even less time will be given to your support requests… -Web hosts that try to get you to sign up for multi year conracts that are too cheap to be believable… -Companies that hide their whois information for their domain… -Companies without a clearly posted phone number…if you have to go searching and barely find it then steer clear!
You can make a good decision if you go through the process. Check them out by the criteria listed above. Don’t jump on something just because it says Christian on it. Some of those sites are owned by other companies that are not even Christian owned. A great hosting company will have great support through phone and tickets.
It is a good idea to check out that you hosting service is fully managed. This means that if you have questions outside of the box they will still try to lead you in the right direction without a box full of excuses. A good company will know the answers to many issues before you even ask for help. They will monitor and backup their servers on a timed interval basis for a secured environment for your site.
Before you buy, make sure you Choose The Best Web Hosting For Your Churchand make sure you find the right plan for your needs.
| Print article | This entry was posted by William Ellis on March 31, 2010 at 6:42 pm, and is filed under Web hosting. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed. |
Comments are closed.