Keeping all your efforts on web site in a computer or a server belong to somebody else is a risk. Lost of thing can be happen to it. You can not predict failure, malfunction, loss or closer of your account in the hosting server. Some of the problems may be temporary and some may be permanent and you may lose all the effort you made on your web site.
Other than problem in hosting company, some other problem will destroy you site like hackers
So monitoring your hosting is very important. There are a number of tasks that you should be performing on a regular basis. You can use monitoring service and to keep an eye on your web site. That way you will know immediately if something happens.
You should have good backup in your computer or somewhere else with all the pages in the web site. All editing should be done in your pages on your own computer and upload them to your site. Never edit your site pages directly. Thing you stored on your web site which do not originate from your computer like mailing lists, links and other similar things should be copied to your own hard drive on a regular basis. You must ensure that you have a backup of everything belong to web site.
You can register your domain name in another company. Then you get good control over it than your hosting company. May be it is not easy to transfer your domain if register it same hosting company. Even price may be cheaper in other places. Only use a domain name to reference your site and submitting. Do not use the URL provided by your web host as this lead to problem when you want to transfer it somewhere else.
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