Can I continue to keep DH hosting with my site but keep it from being seen in search engine? If I cancel hosting how do I get the website back later?
I don't want my site to be seen online
If you have content on your website and want to keep your hosting active, you may want to consider password protecting your website instead:
You can also make a complete backup of your website in the panel and download it to your personal computer:
You would then be able to end your hosting plan if you choose. You can re-upload your website from the backup once you are ready to re-instate your hosting.
You can also use a robots.txt file, which the more popular search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) will honor. Not all search engines will honor that file, though.
If you want a “members only” type of site, you may want to use a CMS that requires a login to view content.
Keep backups of the site files on your local machine. If you use a CMS, be sure to back up the database, as well.