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Are You a Hosting Hostage?
By: John Calder, Tue Nov 8th, 2005
© 2004, John Calder http://www.TheEzine.net
In recent years, the hosting business has become extremely
competitive. Not so long ago, the monthly price for an average
hosting account for one domain was in the $35 and up range, at a
minimum. Now, you can get a hosting account where you can host
unlimited domains (up to the disk space and network usage limits
of your account), for $25 and under. To try to win more
customers in this crowded field, most hosting companies offer
bundles of features, included at no extra charge in your hosting
plan.
On the surface, all of those features look great, and they are.
From single autoresponders to shopping carts, from private name
servers to the amazing Fantastico package that lets you install
any of numerous software packages, like blogs, content
management systems, forums, help desks, and so on, with near
one-click ease. But there's a hidden, more self-serving reason
the hosting companies offer this convenience to their customers.
They hope you'll become dependent enough on the software
features they offer that it will discourage you from changing
hosting companies.
Their service may suffer at some point, perhaps due to sale of
the company, support staff cutbacks, problems within their
network, and a variety of other reasons. You may want to change
hosting companies for good reason. But if you've set up your
entire site using the software your hosting company offers, you
won't necessarily be able to take those software packages with
you. You can probably find another hosting company that offers
the same software, but you'll still have to transfer all of your
databases and configuration settings yourself.
One way to help eliminate this problem is to use third-party
services where you can - for example, autoresponder services and
visitor tracking are good candidates. Your next best choice is
to install your own free or paid scripts, that you can delete
and reinstall on another server, should a move be necessary.
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