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How to Get a Cheap Website
Cheaper Can Be Better
Just like anything else, it’s possible to find a website and host that are low cost and will still work hard for you. The average internet user knows very little about the low cost things that are available and where to find them. Many believe that having your own website is an expensive proposition, that nearly all of the work will have to be done for you and paid for. The reality is that you can do most of it yourself, even if you’re not the most internet savvy person out there.
Finding the right host for your website is the first order of business for your low cost site building activities. It is the single most important building block that you need to get your site in order. Making sure that the host that you select has certain things available for your use will keep your costs low and help you to build your site with greater ease and rapidity.
Domain Registrars
Before you begin it’s necessary to register the domain that you might like to use for your website.
Selecting a domain name should be a matter of choosing one that is aligned closely with what your site is about.
Needless to say, you’re not going to choose a name such as animals.com if your site is going to be about crafting. It may take a little effort to find the right name, since a great many of them are taken but hang in there. If you can’t find the name that you want, try it with a hyphen between the words. A lot of these are still available and tend to be sometimes more useful than the names which run the words together.
There are multiple domain registrars that offer lower pricing on domains. The domain that you buy may cost you anywhere from 1.99-20 dollars for a year.
There isn’t much point in paying more than you need to for a domain name. You’re going to find a great many registrars that will charge you in excess of twenty dollars for a domain name. The same ICANN registration applies to the ones that offer the domain names for 6 or 7 dollars, so do a little comparison shopping and register at a lower cost domain registrar.
Your Web Host
There are several free sites that will host your website for you, but they tend to be very limiting in nature. Most of the free hosts that you will find are actively prohibiting the use of advertisements and other means of making money on your website. You will be better served by paying a nominal amount for web hosting with a service that offers you amenities such as Fantastico and Cpanel to help you set up your site.
This is particularly true if you are new to the internet or website building and design. The best method to get it all is to find a host that offers you a free and easy installation of the various content management systems or blog software. You can do the work yourself in this case and save money on the software installations if you’re not well versed in the installation and software.
Software
Once you’ve gotten the right host for your site, you can select to install the free software for the site by using the Fantastico installation options that come with the host you’ve selected.
Installation of software such as Joomla, CMS Made Simple, or WordPress( a particular favorite of ours) is free. These offerings are open source software, use of them is free, and they are installed by just a few clicks, requiring little or no setup effort other than to secure the software and sites.
The installation completed, you can begin to design your look and feel to suit your needs or your desires.
Making it Pay
The total cost so far for your website is just about 30 dollars if you’ve followed our suggestions here. The domain registration cost are under 10 dollars. Average web hosting costs will be about 10 dollars for a month’s time, while the remainder of the software and installation was free of charge.
If you set up your site with some well written content and then follow it up with affiliate links to products that relate to your overall theme, or offer your own products for sale, in no time at all you have a cheap website up and running and are ready to put it to work making money for you.
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