Need website in a hurry?

If you need to get a professional-looking blog or website up in a hurry… and don’t know ANYTHING about website design… and don’t want to spend HUNDREDS of dollars on a professional web designer… here’s what you need to do.

You can get a very professional-looking, easy-to-use website up and running in ONE HOUR. It will cost you about $7.95 per month for the web hosting and nothing else.  What’s more, each ADDITIONAL website you create will only cost you $10 per year.

Here’s how.

Step 1: Sign up for a web hosting account with BlueHost.com. It will cost you about $95 for a whole year but you can get it for as little as 3 months, if you want something temporary. This price INCLUDES the cost of the domain name… unlimited email addresses… and, if you want to create another website, the additional website is only $10 for the whole year (including domain name). This step only takes about 5 minutes.

Step 2: Install WordPress on the BlueHost account. If you don’t know how to do that, watch the video below that explains everything in just 21 minutes. The actual amount of time it takes to install WordPress on the BlueHost system is about 1 minute.

That’s it.  The beauty of this approach is that it lets you create unlimited websites for just $10 per year… including the domain name AND webhosting.  You can’t beat that.

Step 3: Pick a FREE WordPress template that you like from the hundreds that are available through WordPress.  We will cover this in a future video.

Step 4: Design a professional-looking BANNER for the top of your site. This, too, will be covered in another video.

Step 5: Create the pages and posts you want for your site. These can include products and services, sale items, contact information, you name it. Use the blogging (center) section of the WordPress template to write regular updates.

That’s it! This entire process should take no less than about 30 minutes, tops.

Introductory Video on How to Blog

If you’ve always wanted to start an online blog but didn’t know how….

… or if the free blog you set up on sites like blogger.com or typepad look too amateurish to use for your business website…

… then you’re in luck.

I’ve created a series of videos that will show you how to do everything you need to become a successful amateur or professional blogger.  One video will show you how to get a FREE blog set up in under 2 minutes (perfect for complete beginners or people who only want to blog for fun).  Another video will demonstrate how to get a domain name, create a web hosting account, and install WordPress (the popular blogging software) in less than 20 minutes.  This would be better for someone who wants to use a blog design for a business.

Just fill in the form below to see these super-easy, very short (just 10 to 20 minute) videos that will demonstrate step by step how to get a blog website up and running in minutes.:

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Affordable Web Hosting for Blogs

If you want cheap web hosting for your blog, please take a moment to read this post!

I spent YEARS paying $35 a year to park a domain name at Network Solutions — and then they wanted a lot more for web hosting. When I finally started creating my own sites, I discovered I was being an idiot.

BlueHost.com charges you as little as $6.95 a month for web hosting — which is about as cheap as it gets.

But this is what really got me: they also throw in the domain registration for free… AND…

… once you sign up for one web hosting account, every ADDITIONAL domain name AND website only costs you an extra $10 a year.

That’s incredible! I now have about a dozen blogs and only pay $10 a year each for both the domain name registration AND the web hosting. I honestly think it’s the best deal in town and that’s why BlueHost.com is the only web host I recommend to my students.

Now, if you don’t know what a web host is, let me explain.

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own website accessible via the World Wide Web.

Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called co-location.

The scope of hosting services varies widely. The most basic is web page and small-scale file hosting, where files can be uploaded via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a Web interface. The files are usually delivered to the Web “as is” or with little processing. Many Internet service providers (ISPs) offer this service free to their subscribers. People can also obtain Web page hosting from other, alternative service providers. Personal web site hosting is typically free, advertisement-sponsored, or cheap. Business web site hosting often has a higher expense.

Single page hosting is generally sufficient only for personal web pages. A complex site calls for a more comprehensive package that provides database support and application development platforms (e.g. PHP, Java, Ruby on Rails, and ASP.NET). These facilities allow the customers to write or install scripts for applications like forums and content management. For e-commerce, SSL is also highly recommended. To find out the name of an affordable web hosting company, fill in the form below…

Finding Affordable Web Hosting

If you want to start a blog for your business, hobby or family, you need an inexpensive, easy-to-use web hosting account. Not only that, but you need to know how to set everything up.

I’ve tried a lot of different web hosting companies, but I’ve finally found one that I really like. I have more than a DOZEN blogs that I’ve created using this web hosting company.

The reason?

First, it’s cheap: as little as $6.95 a month.

Second, domain name registration is FREE (included in the web hosting price).

That’s HUGE. When I had my sites with one web hosting company, they were charging me $35 a year just for the domain name alone.

That’s a pretty good deal, but what I really like about it is this:

Third: You can ADD an additional domain name and web site for only $10 per year! Really great. Now, when I think of a new website idea, I can literally register the name and set up a new website for just $10 a year and it only takes me ten minutes.

If you want to know the name of this super-easy, very affordable web hosting company… one that I use on ALL my blogs without exception… just fill in the form below. I’ll tell you the name of this company immediately… AND… I’ll give you a FREE video that shows you how to set up a web hosting account with this company and install a WordPress blog in less than 20 minutes.

What is web hosting?

The host may also provide an interface or control panel for managing the Web server and installing scripts as well as other services like e-mail. Some hosts specialize in certain software or services (e.g. e-commerce). They are commonly used by larger companies to outsource network infrastructure to a hosting company. To find a web hosting company, searchable directories can be used. One must be extremely careful when searching for a new company because many of the people promoting service providers are actually affiliates and the reviews are biased.

Hosting uptime refers to the percentage of time the host is accessible via the internet. Many providers state that they aim for a 99.9% uptime, but there may be server restarts and planned (or unplanned) maintenance in any hosting environment.

A common claim from the popular hosting providers is ‘99% or 99.9% server uptime’ but this often refers only to a server being powered on and doesn’t account for network downtime. Real downtime can potentially be larger than the percentage guaranteed by the provider. Many providers tie uptime and accessibility into their own service level agreement (SLA). SLAs sometimes include refunds or reduced costs if performance goals are not met.

* Free web hosting service: is free, (sometimes) advertisement-supported web hosting, and is often limited when compared to paid hosting.
* Shared web hosting service: one’s Web site is placed on the same server as many other sites, ranging from a few to hundreds or thousands. Typically, all domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as RAM and the CPU. A shared website may be hosted with a reseller.
* Reseller web hosting: allows clients to become web hosts themselves. Resellers could function, for individual domains, under any combination of these listed types of hosting, depending on who they are affiliated with as a provider. Resellers’ accounts may vary tremendously in size: they may have their own virtual dedicated server to a colocated server.
* Virtual Dedicated Server: dividing a server into virtual servers, where each user feels like they’re on their own dedicated server, but they’re actually sharing a server with many other users. The users may have root access to their own virtual space. This is also known as a virtual private server or VPS.
* Dedicated hosting service: the user gets his or her own Web server and gains full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, the user typically does not own the server. Another type of Dedicated hosting is Self-Managed or Unmanaged. This is usually the least expensive for Dedicated plans. The user has full administrative access to the box, which means the client is responsible for the security and maintenance of his own dedicated box.
* Managed hosting service: the user gets his or her own Web server but is not allowed full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, they are allowed to manage their data via FTP or other remote management tools. The user is disallowed full control so that the provider can guarantee quality of service by not allowing the user to modify the server or potentially create configuration problems. The user typically does not own the server. The server is leased to the client.
* Colocation web hosting service: similar to the dedicated web hosting service, but the user owns the colo server; the hosting company provides physical space that the server takes up and takes care of the server. This is the most powerful and expensive type of the web hosting service. In most cases, the colocation provider may provide little to no support directly for their client’s machine, providing only the electrical, Internet access, and storage facilities for the server. In most cases for colo, the client would have his own administrator visit the data center on site to do any hardware upgrades or changes.
* Clustered hosting: having multiple servers hosting the same content for better resource utilization. Clustered Servers are a perfect solution for high-availability dedicated hosting, or creating a scalable web hosting solution.
* Grid hosting : this form of distributed hosting is when a server cluster acts like a grid and is composed of multiple nodes.
* Home server: usually a single machine placed in a private residence can be used to host one or more web sites from a usually consumer-grade broadband connection. These can be purpose-built machines or more commonly old PC’s.

Some ISPs actively attempt to block home servers by disallowing incoming requests to TCP port 80 of the user’s connection and by refusing to provide static IP addresses. A common way to attain a reliable DNS hostname is by creating an account with a dynamic DNS service. A dynamic DNS service will automatically change the IP address that a URL points to when the IP address changes.

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