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Don’t be Charmed In , Locked Down and Charged Upgrades

If you’ve just started looking at website hosting providers for the first time you might be finding it difficult to determine whether the heavily advertised low cost standard solutions are going to meet your needs, and whether those expensive premium addons lurking in the background are going to be required. You might also be wondering whether there are any catches and hidden charges.If you haven’t yet chosen who will host your holiday home website then of course we would be delighted to help you. However in case you’re intrigued by a “free” or “nearly-free” hosting service you’ve seen advertised elsewhere please take a moment to understand how these  too-good-to-be-true deals work and make sure you ask the necessary questions before you commit your website to a hosting provider.

The Website Hosting Company Charm Offensive

Who doesn’t like a “bargain”?Popularised by Go-Daddy, but very common elsewhere in the industry, is the “12 months Free Hosting” offer. It generally requires you signing up for a minimum 2 year hosting plan, paying upfront for the second year’s service.The price you may be paying for the second year – and every year thereafter – may not be particularly great value but that’s why the first year is free!We’d advise you to compare the value of the annual hosting rate that you will be signing up for.

Don’t be locked In to a Service

If you’ve seen a Hosting Company offering you an easy to use DIY page building website, then you will most likely be signing up to a restricted website hosting platform.If you are familiar with Shopify this works very similar. Shopify is a platform where you can set up a shop website but you cannot export your shop website away from Shopify onto a WordPress website for example.You are essentially tied to the Shopify platform.Many DIY website services like Wix.com work in a similar way. They offer you a page builder platform that will prevent you from one day transferring your self crafted website to another website provider. You may not even be able to transfer your domain name to another provider and start afresh.You are then also committed to the pricing plan set by the provider, reliant on their service and support and limited by the basic functionality offered by the provider (Does It have a Booking System that will work for you? – How Search Engine Friendly is it really? ) If you don’t ask those questions you might find out you have to upgrade to premium services after all.

Watch Out for Essential Premium Upgrades

You can certainly setup a nice looking Holiday Home Website on an economy hosting service – even on a DIY page builder service if you are creatively minded. You should be mindful though that appearance isn’t everything – the website also needs to be functional so we’ve listed a few things to check before you commit to an economy service such as:

Our Hosting Service

Our Holiday Home Website Hosting Service is purpose built to be meet all the requirements of a successful holiday website – and be fully under your control.Your website will be hosted in the UK on fast SSD servers by 20i (the very same people who in 2003 launched Heart Internet)

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