Danielle Guerin

As a virtual assistant, I often help my clients with website management. This means that I will need all the information to access their website configuration panel (cPanel) and their FTP usernames and passwords.

Lately, I’ve seen many situations where my client didn’t really own their website. Their webmaster – if you can consider their work webmastery – hosted their website on his own domain and the client did not have access to the back end of their website.

Now, what happens if my client wants to make some small changes to the content? She has to ask this person to do it because she has no control over her content. Of course, there is a cost each time for this.

What would happen if the true owner of the site moves, changes career or has an accident, disappears from the face of the earth?  My client would have to start all over and this means no site – less or no visibility if that’s the only marketing tool they use.

Luckily for this client, she only had one page online and she is planning on getting a “real” website or blog.

I’ve seen some hosting packages starting at 5.95 CAD a month with unlimited bandwidth, unlimited email accounts and unlimited parked domains. At such a low cost, there’s no reason not to host your own website.