Every year, small business owners find out the hard way that they don’t actually own the website they’ve been paying for. The domain is registered in the designer’s name, the hosting account is theirs, and when the relationship goes sour or the designer disappears, the business is locked out of its own front door. This …
You paid for a website. You’d assume that means you own it — the domain, the hosting, the code, all of it. But a surprising number of small business owners find out the hard way that they can’t touch their own site without going through the person who built it, and that person has gone …
Missing a payment on your website doesn’t erase it overnight, but what happens next depends entirely on what kind of “website builder” you’re dealing with. A DIY platform like Wix or Squarespace follows a fairly predictable countdown from past-due to offline to deleted. A site built by a freelancer or agency is a different story, …