It’s easier than you think to start, & you don’t need to be a code expert.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to getting a website up and running is just getting started. Sure, you’ve got an idea now and content and know exactly how you want your site to look – but how do you actually get things going?
It’s WAY easier than you might imagine. First, you can feel free to shop around for what hosting provider works best, but I’ve already done all that for you and have determined decidedly that for free hosting, you should use Doteasy.com.
Doteasy.com is great for is for free hosting (actually free, as in $0/mth, $0/yr, etc. – I hope you get the idea) You do have to pay for your domain name – $25 USD gets you a year.
With Doteasy.com, you can:
- Host up to 10 domains for free
- Get 10 email accounts (like you@yourdomain.com)
- Host a Blog
- Host a Forum
- Host a Photo/Video gallery
- Get Great customer support
- AND HAVE NO WEBHOST ADS ON YOUR SITE!
(Many if not most ‘free’ webhost sites place ads everywhere on your content, making it look very unprofessional if your website represents a business. Also, they’re just annoying if all you want is a personal site, and stealing away from your own profits if you have your own ads you want to place)
The only limitations of doteasy.com’s free webhosting are that you can’t use anything that requires PHP or MySQL support, like a WordPress blog, Content Management System (CMS), or shopping cart. So if all you’re looking for is a ‘brochure’ type website – look no further than doteasy.com’s free hosting.
To Get Started Free Hosting with Doteasy.com:
Search to see if your domain is available
Choose your hosting package (Again, free hosting works perfect here – feel free to opt out of all the extra’s too, they’re totally optional and won’t ever effect the functionality of your site by not opting in, though some of the services they offer are worthwhile for the price)
Fill in your info and pay for your domain. Again, $25 USD gets you started. After that you’ll receive an email with login details to your very own control panel, where you can launch a free website creator. Click on the link to launch a demo and see for yourself how utterly simple and intuitive the software is!
Need a little more? Then the only choice is hostgator.com
With them, I pay less than $10 a month to host
- Unlimited Websites
- Unlimited Email Addresses
- Unlimited Bandwidth (So if you’re hosting large files or video, you there’s no limit to the amount of data transferred to your visitors)
- WordPress blogs (like this one)
- CMS Enabled sites (Like pyneonline.com)
- Shopping Carts with Secure transactions
Really, anything you can think of you can do with hostgator.com for less than $10 per month
You’d want to use them if you’re expecting high traffic, a higher number of web pages (ie. 20+), rapidly updating content (blogs or news), large downloads, or hosting any scripts (Scripts are like programs that your website runs – wordpress is a script for a blog, easy to use, no coding needed) that require MySQL or PHP functionality. Here’s a list of all the scripts you can easily install with Fantastico Deluxe a free application that comes with any of hostgator.com’s hosting packages.
You get stared with them the same way you’d get started with doteasy.com
Search to see if your domain is available
Choose your hosting package
Fill in your info and pay (with hostgator.com, you can chose to pre-pay for up to 3 years of hosting, significantly reducing your monthly costs, also, be sure to use any of the links on this website, as you’ll find a coupon code will automatically be applied to your sign-up saving you a ton of money!!)
So, if you’re ready – then get movin’ and go to hostgator.com or doteasy.com and sign up today! Stick around, episode four of ‘You Want a Website, You Just Don’t Know it Yet’ will be landing soon…
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