How to Build Your First WordPress Blog: Purchase Web Hosting
Purchasing Web Hosting is the second step to Building Your First MLM Blog. In the previous lesson, I talked about the importance of having your own website and went through the process of Registering Your Domain Name. In this lesson, I will explain some of the technical details of Purchasing Web Hosting and the process of setting up a WordPress Blog.
I have created this WordPress Blog Building Tutorial designed with a newbie in mind. This is the exact process I use to build my blog and you can use as a blueprint to start yours.
Purchase Web Hosting
Web Hosting is where you store all your files necessary for your website to function. You’ll need to purchase web hosting for your website. This means there is a small monetary investment.
You might be wondering if you could use a freebie hosting service such as Blogger.com. Tumblr.com or WordPress.com.
To be honest, using a free hosting package is the worst mistake you can make online. There are many reasons for this. One in particular, is that with a free site you have zero control over this property. That means they can take it down without any reason. This can be a horrible experience - Especially if your web property is earning income. Another reason is that you can’t customize your site nearly as much as one that you own.
My advice? Pay a little money to get a quality web hosting service.
I recommend one site for your hosting needs: Host Gator.
Why?
- It’s affordable
- Has the resources and tools you need for a website. (Cpanel Control Panel, MySQL, PHP, Fantastico, WordPress)
- Great Support. 24/7/365 support with many options. They have an excellent support section that’s filled with video tutorials.
- Reliability. 99.9% Uptime Guarantee.
If you only plan on having one website, then you should go with a single Hosting plan such as Host Gator’s “Baby” plan. You can get started with 25% off using my discount coupon code during checkout.
Use my coupon code to get a 25% discount: JEFFSGATORHOST
If you plan on having multiple websites, your best option is to get a Reseller account, such as Host Gator’s “Aluminum” reseller plan. This will allow you to launch an unlimited number of websites without having to pay any additional hosting costs. You can use my 25% discount coupon during checkout with this plan also.
After you’ve obtained Web Hosting, we’ll want to make sure your domain is pointing to your hosting account. I will cover Changing Name Servers in the next lesson.
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I wouldn’t call using Blogger, Tumblr, or WordPress.com as a big mistake. It’s actually a good start. I’d go for the hosting if I have the main site design ready to go, and I’ll decide to put my blog under a sub-directory of my domain. Wouldn’t that be a good idea?
I would agree to some point with you Gerald. Blogger,Tumblr,or WordPress.com would be a good start for a new blogger. The only problem is you lack control and you cant take advantage of the many plugins available to you when you host your own blog with WordPress.
Thanks a million and please keep up the enjoyable work.
Jeff Knowles, I have read your article and found it very informative. Thank you for publishing such facts and suggestions. I am very much pleased with your suggestion of the Hosting plan. I really want to avail the Host Gator. How much does it usually cost nowadays?
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