What 'domain and hosting company' really means for a Chattogram business
Most domain and hosting companies in Chittagong sell you a cPanel login. Almost none make sure you actually own the domain underneath it.
Here is the trap nobody at the counter warns you about. You search for a domain and hosting company in Chittagong, you find a Facebook page run by one guy with a WHM reseller panel, you pay around 1,200 taka for a .com and a 'business hosting' plan, and a cPanel login lands in your inbox.
Eighteen months later you want to move to a new developer — and you discover the domain is registered under HIS account, the WHOIS contact email is his, the nameservers are locked, and the renewal has quietly doubled. You do not own your domain. You are renting your own company name from a reseller in a different part of the city who may not reply by the time your principal abroad is waiting on an email.
I have cleaned up this exact mess for Chattogram firms more times than I would like to count.
I work differently because I am not in the business of renting you back your own name. When I handle your domain and hosting, the domain is registered with YOUR details on the WHOIS, billed to YOUR email, and you hold the registrar login. The hosting is sized to what your site actually needs — not an oversold '100 GB unlimited' plan on a box packed with hundreds of other sites that crawls every evening when the whole country comes online at once.
For a port-city firm whose buyers and principals are often offshore, I also weigh where the server sits, because a Chattogram trading site judged from Singapore or the Gulf cannot afford to load slowly. You leave with the keys, not a tenancy agreement.
The honest part: I am not a datacenter, and I will never pretend to be one. I am a senior website designer who has shipped sites in Bangladesh for around 5 years, and in that time I have learned exactly which registrars and hosting setups hold up for a Chattogram business and which ones will burn you.
So 'domain and hosting company in Chittagong,' the way I deliver it, means I procure and configure the right domain and the right hosting under your ownership, wire up email and DNS correctly, and then — the part the panel-sellers never do — I design and build the actual website that lives on it. For an Agrabad importer or a GEC indenting firm, the infrastructure is table stakes. The site a foreign buyer opens cold is the point.
Everything runs on the same straight model as my design work: full website projects start at 50,000 BDT, with tiers at 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT, and fully custom builds from 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, your call. You approve the design before a single line of code is written; that is the design-approval guarantee. Domain registration and the first year of hosting are folded into the project, so you are not chasing three separate invoices from three separate people who all blame each other the day your email stops sending.
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