Hosting Expiry and Renewal
If your website operates in a rented hosting environment, your hosting firm manages the rented space and you have to pay for hosting fees. This payment depends on your contract with the hosting firm. It can be on a monthly or yearly basis.
In order to renew your hosting, you will have to contact your hosting provider.
What happens when your hosting expires?
Your SEO rank on search engines drop.
When your web hosting expires, search engines and users can’t access your website. This automatically results in low search engine rankings. It implies that users may not find it on the first-page search results while looking for your website or company on Google and other search engines. That is disadvantageous to the website overall health and well-being.
Your website gets suspended.
Hosting providers have no choice but to temporarily suspend the website, allowing you a grace time period to complete the payment. Throughout this time, the website shows some sort of error message or a message telling the website owner to contact ASAP, the hosting company. The negative aspect about this is that users to the website get to see that and this is not good for your company’s image.
You may lose your domain name.
You also run the risk of actually losing your domain name, especially if the same company provides your domain name and hosting service.
It is best practice to pay your hosting fee promptly to prevent losing your efforts of designing and creating your website and all the other content and database that your website has created over time.
Website content may be lost if you do not have a backup.
If you end up causing your web hosting to expire, the website content as well as the database would be at risk. This is possible if there is no backup and no payment is made for the hosting. Although a few hosts try to preserve backups of company websites, but some don’t. It’s best to prevent the expensive scenario by paying for your hosting service.
Finally, it involves penalties. When you pay, your hosting service may charge you additional fees on overdue payments. However by renewing your hosting on time, you can save all the additional costs. (Nwabuogor, 2020)
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