As many of you know, there are multitude of options for hosting and domain.
For "my personal" choice, I always get my domain names from 1and1.com .... why?
Because they offer free privacy that is included with your domain name at 14.99 per year. Which is reasonable price.
On the flip side, for competitor such as GoDaddy will charge you about that same rate, but want additional $$$ for domain privacy.
For "my personal" choice, I always get my hosting with Bluehost.com ... why?
Because they offer quite competitive prices on hosting of multiple domain names, as well as decent security and upkeep of the shared hosting plans, as well as a technical support that's 24/7 and usually good technicians to help you.
Yes, people can tell me their own personal stories and yes, everyone's needs are different, so quite honestly, majority of hosting is going to be the same more or less ... just depends on if you are lucky enough to get to a good price deal and of quality.
Something that many other hosting companies do NOT offer is FREE SSL. Bluehost hosting packages do.
That I know for sure, that GoDaddy will charge you from $60/year on SSL security. And guess what, Bluehost offers FREE SSL (on the basic level) ... which I believe is sufficient for 75% of small websites out there. No need to waste more money on upsells that try to tell you you'll get more service by paying more.
Below is how easy it is to activate the Bluehost FREE SSL:
And then when you activate it, just wait about 1 hour ... and boom ... DONE. You've got a secure SSL site.
You may have to go back into your Wordpress site and activated a plugin called Forced HTTPS ... which makes all of your content and links force to the new https:// link ... but if you get the "Secure" symbol from Chrome, Firefox, or your browser of choice ... then you are good to go!
Get hosted with Bluehost today!
Does your website have SSL? And if not, why don't you have it yet?
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