Monday, 29 September 2014 06:50

5 Best Web Hosts to Launch Your Artist Website

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Organizing all of your music, content and contact information in one location—that is consistent with your branding is critical for the success of your musical career. Your personalized website is your around the clock, 24/7 liaison that will globally promote you while you're sound asleep. It also provides a professional hub to communicate with your fan base and simple accessibility for your network leads to contact you. While having profiles on entertainment geared social networking sites such as Reverbnation, Facebook, etc. is important, you're competing with thousands of other artists and distracting advertisements. Presenting an industry professional with a customized website (with your own domain name) makes you, the artist, memorable and doubly serves as your electronic press kit. More importantly, you want to know who is listening to your music, at what times, and how often. You want need to know the facts and statistics and you can only get that with a web host. Here are 5 idomusiconline recommended web hosts that offer features specifically for musicians with no website design skills (or time) required.

 

Bandzoogle
"A website builder created for musicians by musicians." You don't have to hire a web designer to create a branded website with Bandzoogle. Loaded with tons of templates and step-by-step instructions, you could literally have your website up and running in minutes. A major PRO that Bandzoogle offers is a stellar support staff that is available 7 days a week to answer any questions you may have with urgency. Each plan is compiled with a package of features including a mailing list, a music and merch store, fan data tracking, unlimited bandwidth, free domain name and more. Bandzoogle's plans vary in price, but before committing and launching your website, you can start with a 30 day trial. And if you need more time, they have no problem extending it for you. Lastly, we heard through the grapevine, if you had an account with Hostbaby and switch to Bandzoogle, Bandzoogle gives you a promotional offer.

 

Ourgig
"Not cheap hosting. Quailty afforable hosting." Ourgig is a one-stop shop for all of your web presence needs. They offer two plans for web hosting for musicians and labels featuring a Wordpress migration support team, 24/7 human support, and unlimited email service differing in storage and bandwidth size. Ourgig also supplies complete web design and public relation services for additional fees—connecting independent artists with valuable and revenue generating results.

 

Hostbaby
Brought to you by CD Baby indie music distribution, Hostbaby is designed to "give independent musicians, authors and artists the tools they need to grow their careers online." Similar to Bandzoogle, Hostbaby offers tons of features tailored for artists such as creating a website in minutes, a music and merch store, live website editing, unlimited pages, etc.  Hostbaby offers specific features that make this web host unique. For starters, they provide Web/SEO optimization so that your fans won't have any trouble finding you on the interwebs. Due to their affiliation with CD Baby, any member on Hostbaby can add their music to CDBaby.com for free, waiving the registration fee for each CD.

 

FourFour
"Takes seconds, costs nothing." FourFour is a free web host and website builder. Offering a buffet of free features including templates, content syndication, website analytics, and easy content management, FourFour is a great option for your first website. If you want to get fancy, they offer upgrade features made up of complete web design, utilizing a personalized domain name (instead of artistname.fourfour.com), removing external advertising, unlimited media and unlimited emails all for competitive fares.

 

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Squarespace
While this host site is not created solely for musicians, it houses some sleek and clean designs with templates geared towards freelance artists. Squarespace's pricing is extremely reasonable for very similar features to the aforementioned web hosts including unlimited bandwidth, unlimited pages, fully integrated e-commerce, mobile features, a free custom domain, and 24/7 support.

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