Although you will be told time and time again that you do not need a website of your own, actually you will be 99% better off if you do have one. It will open up doors that you can’t imagine right now. But later down the road, everything from blogging, to building a base of leads to sell to, to reselling products will be a whole lot simpler if you get your own website on paid hosting.
The most well known host is Hostgator– where you can pick up a hosted account for less than $10 per month. At this point you can choose any level of service you wish, but I’d recommend anything above the most basic level.
There are other well known names as well – such as GoDaddy, but in general I recommend Hostgator because it’s popular with Internet Marketers, which may come into play down the road in terms of compatibility issues.
Should you only choose .COM and not .NET, or .ME, or .ORG?
Well, most people remember .COM the best, but that is hard to answer. I mostly get .COMs myself, it the domain is available, otherwise I’ll opt for .NET. Some people also register .NET and even .ORG to protect a good brand name – should their website become very popular in the future, if they’re not already using the name of their established offline business.
I usually use Godaddy, or Namecheap when registering a domain name. In terms of registration fee, you shouldn’t pay more than $10.00 – $12.00 annually.
In the next lesson, we’ll look at uploading files from your computer to your hosting account through FTP programs.
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