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What is the best service for web hosting and buying a domain? Is it better to have both under one provider?

22nd September 2013

My answer to What is the best service for web hosting and buying a domain? Is it better to have both under one provider? on Quora

No, it’s not better to have both under the same provider. Good web hosts do not necessarily make good DNS hosts and vice versa.

Posted 22nd September 2013 at 3:12 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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