Your Internet Investment
A website is often compared to a piece of real estate on the Internet. The old adage applies when considering your place on the web, location, location, location. I am referring to to your web address and the place on the Internet where your web files are stored. You want to select your domain name of relevance to your services and products that your business or organization provides. I go into more detail about selecting your domain name in my next article.
Where you decide to store your web files is just as important as selecting your domain name. If you are fortunate enough to own and operate your own web server, then that is ideal. If you are like many website owners and don’t own your own web server then you will pay a web hosting company to host your web files on their servers.
The person you hire to build and develop your website should explain the importance of you being in control of your domain name and your web files. Having control of your investment is important should you not be able to contact the person you hired to build your website. Designs By Tabitha gives customers control of their domain name and web files through a secure control panel. In the control panel the client can access all of their account information and make any necessary changes or updates.
Designs By Tabitha has helped many clients successfully transfer their domain names and move their web files to our secure servers where the client is in complete control of their domain name and webfiles.
If you aren’t sure how to access your domain name(s) or your web files, then you should contact the person you hired to build your site and request to have complete control of your domain and web files. If your web designer/developer won’t grant you that access, then you should look into transferring your domain and choosing another web hosting company. You may be paying your designer/developer for maintenance services to your website, but it’s important that you treat your website as an investment. Read below about a client’s story of protecting his website and domain names.
“Several years ago, before I met Tabitha, we had a very good webmaster that I trusted completely. She had all our websites and hosting, and to make it more convenient only she could control all our projects. Everything was going great until she got sick and within a very short period of time she disappeared. We searched for her every way we could be never found her. What a nightmare that was. We were concerned for her, but little did we know that the real problems that were in front of us because all of our websites were under her control. It took almost a year to get our hosting changed over and then Tabitha spent time reworking everything on our websites.
Although Tabitha “hosts” our domains, we have all the controls, passwords and ownership, unlike some that host. I hope you don’t find yourself in our situation. Use Tabitha for your hosting and I don’t think you will have the same problem we had.
We here at The Opus One Group highly recommend Tabitha and all her services to anyone who has a small business without a full time I.T. person. Try it and you will not be disappointed. I guarantee it.”
--Jack Kelly, The Opus One Group (www.theopusonegroup.com)
