Mochi MealsTo run a website, the usual components are a domain name like with a registar where you can easily remember the address like google.com yahoo.com or mochimeals.com. Of course there are blog sites which offer a free service with their own ads like blogspot or wordpress.com. If you choose those services, there is less control over the entire website as you only have access to the things those companies give you. In addition your website name would be chooseaname.wordpress.com or chooseaname.blogspot.com. In order to get you own domain name, called Top Level Domain for example choseaname.com you would need to use WordPress.org where you install WordPress from Files. Many hosts using an administration panel make this relatively easy to setup now. The recommended option is to register your own domain and hosting. Domain name registrar that get the most attention are usually the ones that advertise the most and also give large initial discounts. However, when the promotion period ends the prices usually increase and some features such as whois privacy(protects your personal information from being displayed when someone looks up further information about your domain name) may cost extra. The domain name mochimeals.com was registered with grape.ca. Some hosting and or domain companies offer the packages together. For example when you sing up with the hosting then the domain name is “free” which is included in their hosting cost. It was decided to separate hosting from my domain in the event that there needed to be a change in the future. The domain name can be redirected to point to a different host similar to a phone number, but easier and quicker without any added costs. The duration for a domain name is usually one year, but can be purchased for several years at a time.
When this site was initially setup since some services where already being hosted with servarica.com a hosting company located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Using something like Hostinger or Bluehost, Web Hosting Canada provides both Domain Names and hosting. In addition to Domain names, they provide hosting with some website building tools and a control panel (Cpanel) to manage your website. WordPress was used to build this site. Crocweb in Montreal and Hawkhost in Toronto and Hostgamma in Missisauga Ontario are a few good solid Canadian Web Hosts and Domain Providers two solid companies which were seriously considered. These might seem less well known, but their prices seem more stable. On the other hand, WHC and CanHost, HostPapa are the bigger players with promotions which run continuously.
In the end, Mochi Meals took another route which was more involved and used Contabo which is a German Hosting company that had server locations in the United States without additional costs for Black Friday. The cost was roughly $6.50 CAD a month. Install Cloudpanel on a Ubuntu 22.04 Virtual Private server that allows me to do a lot more with than shared hosting. Cloud Panel is completely free and open sourced. The Contabo Server provides 4 core CPUs, 8 GB Memory and 200 GB SSD. The speed of the network is 200 Mbit/second.