Another Monday, another episode of The Web Hosting Show, the voice of the Web hosting world. Here is just a small sample of what we have going on in this week’s edition of the show.
E-mail Limits
George via Hotmail wants to to about the limitations of e-mail accounts you might get with a Web hosting account. He says that he has been shopping at several diffrent places but notices the higher the price for the account, the more e-mail accounts he can create. Why is this so?
Well some places choose to limit the number of e-mail accounts to just put a control over your hosting account. Honestly though, these days more and more Web hosts out there are allowing for people to have “Unlimited” E-mail accounts set up. The thing to remember is if you are given an “unlimited” number that really means you can create as many as you want, as long as it fits in within your disk space and bandwidth for the account in question.
Domain Names Registrations and Web Hosting
Mike wants to know a simple answer to a simple question. It seems he just signed up for a Web hosting account, but noticed two diffrent companies comming up on his credit card statement. One was from his Web host and the other was from some company he had never heard of. After some detective work he figured out the other mystery charge came from his domain name registration. He wants to know why his domain name was registered with these folks when he thought he was doing it with his Web host.
Some Web hosts out there resell domains through bigger companies. Since not every Web host can be an ICANN domain name register, they have to find loop holes to work around. There are several domain name registration companies out there that work like this. They give the Web host a pretty interface to work with so it looks like they are doing the domain name registrations, but really they aren’t.
It really isn’t a bad thing though. You might just have to go through a few extra steps when you go looking for domain name support. Most Web hosts will then direct you to the support team of the domain name registration company since they have little control over the backend of the domain names on that end. This is just one of the reasons why I usually recomend that folks get Web hosting and domain name registrations at two diffrent places.
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