Help! need a cheap n easy website host

Deputy Swan

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I need to build a simple website for my weed spraying business, any suggestions, something that has like a built in web builder or something so its easy for noobs. I have had the business a few years as a part time thing, going to take it to the next level now thus needing a website.

I own the url all ready.


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IDK if this is helpful or not but godaddy?
I would stay far away from them as far as their site builder etc. I haven't looked in awhile but the company I work for was getting charged a lot for nothing. EDIT - I looked just now. Seems more reasonable than they were. Not clear on what all they give you though.

Soulzz mentioned Wix. Their cheapest plan that isn't BS is $14 a month which probably isn't bad. For me to host a simple website I wrote myself I would end up paying $5 a month for the hosting (a shared server or a cloud provider VPS). But that doesn't give you any tools to build it. Now if someone designed you a wordpress theme and got the basic site up for you it would be easy to add more information, pictures, edit what you want. Short term it would cost a bit to get that setup but in the end you would only pay for hosting. Places like Wix will be much cheaper short term. Long term you end up paying more.
 
I honestly stay away from most drag-and-drop site builders, however I can tell you that I've had a handful of clients that were quite happy with SquareSpace.com's site builder, at least until their needs changed that required something a bit more hands-on.

As far as I know, NameCheap.com doesn't offer a site builder for free, you have to purchase a plan for Weebly inside of the marketplace which is another $x/month.
 
I honestly stay away from most drag-and-drop site builders, however I can tell you that I've had a handful of clients that were quite happy with SquareSpace.com's site builder, at least until their needs changed that required something a bit more hands-on.

As far as I know, NameCheap.com doesn't offer a site builder for free, you have to purchase a plan for Weebly inside of the marketplace which is another $x/month.

SquareSpace is one I forgot about. Namecheaps parent company has horrible business practices. They love to buy up their customers expired domains and sell them back at a premium.
 
Hmm, I hadn't realized Namecheap had a parent company. For what it's worth, I used Namecheap (no affiliation) for around 7 years as my primary domain registrar and lightweight site host and never experienced any issues.

Not to go to far off-topic, but realistically in this day and age, someone else is bound to end up doing that. In my opinion, if someone lets their domain expire, that's on them, it's your responsibility to renew it. I can tell you all the domain registrars I've used send out numerous emails a month in advance, leading up to the day that it's actually going to expire.
 
Hmm, I hadn't realized Namecheap had a parent company. For what it's worth, I used Namecheap (no affiliation) for around 7 years as my primary domain registrar and lightweight site host and never experienced any issues.

Not to go to far off-topic, but realistically in this day and age, someone else is bound to end up doing that. In my opinion, if someone lets their domain expire, that's on them, it's your responsibility to renew it. I can tell you all the domain registrars I've used send out numerous emails a month in advance, leading up to the day that it's actually going to expire.

The web is a fun place. Looking it up I forgot its more or less they used to be an Enom reseller. Even though they were also accredited themselves. I not only forgot they were moving away from that situation. But it appears this year they sued Enom and Tucows over the domains that need to be transfered to namecheap. Good for them.

When I take on a client I tell them I don't care where their domain is hosted. Just keep the damn thing renewed ahead of time.
 
I've had good experiences with squarespace, if you care about simple, drag and drop, and looking nice.
 
Wix and SquareSpace are going to be the two big names in the game if you're looking for drag-and-drop website builders. They'll both get you a damn good looking website for relatively cheap.
 
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