I haven’t posted here for a while because I’ve been hard at work, but someone has called for help and I felt compelled to spread the word.

I recently heard a story typifying the exact reason why it is strongly advisable to keep your Hosting and your Domain Registrar separate. This story involves a Hosting company called Dreamhost that did the dirty on one of their customers and have turned his IM life upside down. He has posted his own scathing Dreamhost review which is well worth the read to give you an idea about the dangers that are out there in the online world and the unscrupulous bastards who think they can walk all over the little guys.

Essentially what Dreamhost did was suddenly pull the Hosting out from under the guy citing the use of a Wordpress plug-in on his blogs as the reason for the termination of service. The problem was that there was nothing in the company’s TOS stating that the plug-in was not allowed and, when asked why no warning was given before cutting him off, all he received was a terse reply indicating that their decision was final.

The only domain he could not get back was the one he had registered with Dreamhost. When he tried to transfer the domain to a new host he was unable to verify the domain because it was locked into Dreamhost’s name servers. And he couldn’t access the name servers because they had locked him out with no warning.

Don’t wait until you suddenly have problems with your hosting service. It happens and probably more often than you think it might. You don’t want to lose the site that you have poured hours of hard work into just because some unfeeling nobody decides they don’t like the look of it.

You just don’t want the hassle of having to chase this type of thing up. IM is hard enough without having to take precious time out to deal with imbeciles.

Get even more advice about keeping your Hosting and Domain Names separate.

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