Every website that you visit consists of a domain name and a web host. The easiest way to picture it is to think of the domain name as the address and the web hosting as the physical building.

When you’re browsing the web and you type in a URL (www.hozguard.com), your web browser basically queries that domain name (i.e. hozguard.com) and asks it where the website is hosted. The browser then loads up the contents that are stored there.

Yes – you need three things to have a functioning website: a domain name, web hosting, and site files. You can think of your domain as your street address, your web host as the space you rent to have your business in, and your site files as the items in your office. Your web host provides the server where your site files (including blog posts, images, landing pages, and more) live so they can be accessed at yourdomain.com.

Yes, you can. If you want to, you can purchase domain names from elsewhere and point it to your server with Hozguard. If you want to keep your domain name and your website hosting together under a single provider — which we’d recommend for convenience and easier troubleshooting — then you can also transfer an existing domain name to Hozguard. 

Yes! In fact, this is usually what we recommend, and it’s one of the benefits
of choosing Hozguard as your hosting provider.

An SSL certificate is a small data file that uses a cryptographic key to digitally tie your company’s identity with the files that are stored on your webserver. The idea is to prove the identity of the publisher of a webpage and to reduce the likelihood of a visitor accessing sensitive areas of a website without the appropriate security. When a website has been secured with an SSL certificate, a visitor will see a padlock icon in their web browser and they’ll be connected to the site using the https:// protocol.

With the SSL certificate in place and the user accessing the site through https, the connection between the browser and the web server has been secured and sensitive information can safely be transferred.

That’s why people use SSL certificates on e-commerce websites and other types of website that process credit card transactions and other financial information.

Hozguard offer free SSL certificates with GrowUp and SpeedUp hosting plans.

No. We do not allow content that could be considered adult in nature on any package at Hozguard.

Servers are located in Lansing, Michigan. We are using a Namehero Reseller Account for our services.

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