Should you let your website developer host your website?

When it comes to designing and programming websites, unless you have experience it is best to leave it up to the professionals. One little slip up could mean your site will not get listed in the search engine results on sites such as Google and Yahoo and this can often be hard to recover from.

You do have to put a certain amount of trust in your web developer in order to get the website up and running and to keep t running, but should you let them host the site too? It is far easier for the developer if they are able to host the site. Firstly you need to check that they have a good quality hosting account that is reliable and ideally based in the UK. You should also ask them about back ups to ensure that they are done often and if there is any limit on bandwidth (traffic to the website).

If you have a domain name then make sure that it is registered in your name regardless of who looks after it and maybe ask for a backup of the files for your website once it is complete so you always have a copy even if it is an older one.