Magnific, out of curiosity, if a lady wanted to leave your services, and she paid you for her domain, will you transfer her domain to her or does she have to start over with a new domain?I am glad you brought this up,because no matter how much it's argued reality is when you use the host's software to build a website, it does severely limit your options.
This lady's best bet is to have a real site built from scratch by a real web site designer who knows not to go against a company's terms of service and risk that provider's hard-earned money being thrown away when her site gets shut down, unless you have somewhere in your terms of service that you will give a full refund if that were to happen. Also, when you buy your domain, make sure to privately register it. Yes, someone can dig if they have the means to dig that hard.
Originally Posted by Annie Adorable
Hosting sites like wix/yahoo/etc make their software extremely easy to use for people with no website design knowledge. They are clever as this is how they attract and keep their clients.The problem's begin if you want to move to a cheaper, and or faster host. You can keep your domain name, but the site that was built with wix/yahoo/etc can never be moved .
Even if you love your host, and never wish to leave it. It can be sold, go out of business, or tighten their policy on adult content at any time .Once again when you lose the host you lose the site .The domain name is yours, but that is not where all the work is.
Software offered by hosting sites is great for people like me who like to create their own site, and do not mind the limitations that come with a freebie. But, If I were paying I would personally expect a site with more options, and a brighter future My advice to anyone who wants to make their money building websites is to learn to use software that is independent from any hosts. The old excuse that professional site are hard to update is no longer valid as I have noticed more designers offering software to go with their clients site , so they can easily make changes once its complete
That is what is so cool about software it is always changing. If a person is willing to learn, and update the options can be endless.:trampolin e: