Host & Domain

**mikehihn** · 21 June 2011, 06:27 PM

I'm a GoDaddy reseller for about ten years now and recommend them highly. It's not just the fine tech support some have mentioned. They're the only "budget" provider I know of with 24/7 customer service, by phone. And they PROMOTE their phone service by telling you in many places how many minutes you will wait if you call now.

You're not going to phone them from England, but that may assure you how well they respond to email inquiries. In ten years, I've had ONE complaint with the service I got, and as a reseller I seek their service a lot more than most folks.

I've been doing websites since 1995, and I've tried them all!

Luck.

**Cloud** · 21 June 2011, 09:29 PM

Tried godaddy, tried 1 and 1, tried 123 reg, tried fasthost. The best by a long stretch is ipage, unlimited hosting, free domain, just £1.99 per month and the service is incredible, live chat 24 hours a day, I recommend it to all my customers for their sites and they all heap praise on ipage. As for being country specific, from experience it makes no difference whatsoever from an seo point of view. Just use google webmaster tools to tell google which country the site is aimed at, no matter what the domain suffix. or location of server

**jeb** · 22 June 2011, 03:22 AM

I use StartLogic and have nothing bad to say about them - unlimited domains, 24 hr support, live chat. - jb

**Megg81** · 28 June 2011, 01:54 PM

Hi again all,

I have what I think is likely a very very simple question, but Im right at the very beginning with Xara and site building so I need advice...

I've found a host I want to use, but when I asked if the site I built in Xara would be compatible they said that they didn't support third party site builders - they only supported the file extensions .php, .html, .flv, .py

So when Ive finished up my site in WD6 and I've got the host and the domain name and I finally export the website to make it live what does it export as...?

**Soquili** · 28 June 2011, 02:28 PM

Hi Megg,

Asking a hosting service about Web Designer is not going to get you any sensible answers. They most likely have never heard of the program and do not know anything about it or the files it produces.

Web Designer created websites are World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) compliant. The files created are html, javascript, cascading style sheets (css), and image files supported by all major web browsers.

Unless you are planning on being hosted by some obscure service you should not have any problems with the files output by Web Designer.

**Megg81** · 28 June 2011, 02:46 PM

So because they said .html files are supported then my WD6 file should work fine?

**Soquili** · 28 June 2011, 02:47 PM

Yes they will work very well.

**ckh** · 28 June 2011, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by Soquili

Hi Megg,

Asking a hosting service about Web Designer is not going to get you any sensible answers. They most likely have never heard of the program and do not know anything about it or the files it produces.

I wouldn't say that would happen in all cases....