Set Up Your Hosting
Chapter 1: Setting up your Website
Section 2: Get Your Hosting
Getting your hosting will be pretty striaght-forward. I would recommend using one service for buying the domain name and getting hosting. That just makes set up a little easier to do, you don’t have to mess around with giving one provider account information to the other, which can add time and frustration to the process.
Like I said, godaddy.com is what I use and recommend, not only because it is competitively priced, but because they have alot of free add-ins that will make life easier, and they have great 24/7 free phone support. I’ve only gotten clear English speakers, and they’ve always been helpful.
Godaddy will try to upsell you on tons of other things though, which is slightly annoying. You don’t need any of that stuff, just skip right past all of that and get your basic domain name and hosting for 12 months, and you’ll be all set.
Another important feature that you’ll want to know how to use is the ability to create subdomains. (Most domain providers also have this, but I’m familiar with godaddy so I’ll show you how to set that up with them.) A subdomain is really just like a folder, a different place that information is stored for your website. An example would be www.mystore.mysite.com, where your site is www.mysite.com. The "mystore" is the subdomain. I show you how to do that in the second video to the right. You’ll probably want to use that when promoting separate products from your website in the future. 90 subdomains are included with each domain name that you get.
After you get your name and hosting setup, we’ll just need to do two quick things before you can start putting up webpages. You’ll need to have some way to create pages (an html editor), and some way to "upload" those pages to godaddy (an ftp program, for "file transfer protocol".) I have adequate, free programs that I refer you to on the next page. The html editor even includes some free webpage templates. (One of those is even the one I used to make this site!)
Get your free html editor and start putting up webpages…
