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Domains and hosting, explained
Own your domain, understand your hosting, and keep the keys in your own hands.
from $125
Usually about 1 hr
Written notes where they'll help
What's included
- Registering a domain, and choosing a sensible registrar
- Domain, website hosting and email hosting: what each one is
- DNS records explained in plain English
- Renewals, auto-renew and making sure reminders reach you
- Moving a domain or connecting it to a new website or email provider
- Making sure the domain is in your name and your account, so you hold the keys
What to have ready
- Access to your registrar and hosting accounts. You sign in, or invite us as a user you remove when we're done
- Any renewal emails or invoices
Not included
- Building your website (we can point you to a designer)
- Managing your domain for you. You stay the owner, and anyone who helps gets their own invited access. As the keyholder, it's up to you to keep track of who has access and remove it when it's no longer needed. We'll show you how
If there's more to do, we'll happily keep going at $125 an hour until you're ready to stop, or until we need to head to the next appointment. We can always book another visit to finish off.
What you're left with
- Everything set up and working
- Where it helps, written notes with an action list, sent after the session
- Sometimes a printable step-by-step guide, left with you or sent by email