Before embarking on the creative journey of designing and building your website, its a good idea to choose a domain. Domains can be a deciding factor when choosing the type of design, content or even the name of a website. It is no use starting a website called, for example "Intoweb", but there are no domains available for that name. Domain names can sometimes also be difficult to pick. You may want a domain for your company, thus it has to contain the company name. You may also want a Search Engine Friendly domain or then a combination between the two.
Choosing the domain suffix can also provide difficulty. Ideally, if your market is local, you should have a local domain - For example .co.za / .co.uk. If your market is international, you'd be better off with .com. Of course, with domain names, comes e-mail addresses - this is also a service that we provide.
Hosting also has deciding factors. You have to consider the following, especially if you want to apply SEO to your website:
- Is it affordable?
- Where is the server located?
- Can the provider host my intended development platform?
- How secure is the hosting server?
- Are regular backups made of my data?
- What about client service?
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