Learn how to host your own web­site, just by fol­low­ing my quick start guide from start to fin­ish. I am a pro­fes­sional web­site designer and devel­oper with over 10 years of expe­ri­ence, and I really enjoy shar­ing my knowl­edge with oth­ers. In this par­tic­u­lar arti­cle, I will dis­cuss how to host your own web­site, a quick start guide that shows you step, by step, from start to fin­ish on how to cre­ate and setup your own web­site for under 1cent in less than 30 minutes.

The first thing you should know is that you don’t have to be an html expert, pro­gram­mer or web devel­oper such as myself to Host your own Web­site. How­ever, it does help to have some sort of knowl­edge for more advanced edit­ing and tweak­ing of any web­site appli­ca­tions that you might need to change or edit. If you haven’t already done so, you will need a name for your site and a mar­ket Niche.

What is a mar­ket niche and how does this aid in the abil­ity to host your own web­site? Well, Mar­ket niche is Just a fancy word for describ­ing what your sites about. Most pro­fes­sion­als that start their own web­site or web­site busi­ness, have a mar­ket niche that is rel­a­tive to what they are pas­sion­ate about, or some­thing they know a lot about or have a trade skill in. For exam­ple I am a web designer and web devel­oper, so it would be appar­ent that I’d write about web design or web devel­op­ment, since that is what I am skilled at and pas­sion­ate about.

“Once you have a name and a niche for your web busi­ness, you can start the process and host your own website”.

There are a few steps involved with in the mat­ter of set­ting up things to host your own web­site, below I’ve pro­vided a step by step key process, to assist any­one on how to setup their own web host and to start pub­lish­ing their arti­cles to the web. The best part of this tuto­r­ial is that it requires absolutely no pro­gram­ming or Html knowl­edge at all. If you know how to use a basic edi­tor such as note pad and type “you too can cre­ate beau­ti­ful look­ing web­sites just like a pro­fes­sional web designer.

Step (1) Pur­chase a domain if you don’t already have one I rec­om­mend go daddy they are the lead­ing domain provider cur­rently. When choos­ing a domain make sure the name is rel­e­vant to your busi­ness and mar­ket niche.

Step (2) Pur­chase host­ing, there are a lot of host­ing providers out there, but the one I rec­om­mend and use myself is host gator because they have every­thing you could want or need. They give you lim­it­less host­ing and that is why I love host gator, You want a host­ing com­pany that will grow with you and host gator does just that.

Step (3) When set­ting up host gator, we will be using word press, so when you check out use the word “WORDPRESS” as the access code before check­ing out.

Step (4) Wait 15 min­utes, grab a cup of cof­fee or some­thing. It will take about 15 min­utes for Host­Ga­tor to set up your host­ing, that’s pretty fast con­sid­er­ing other host­ing providers take 2 or some­times even 3 days.

Step (5) Open your email and log into you CPANEL, scroll down to where it says account infor­ma­tion, this will be on the left hand side. Under name servers, copy and paste the long text begin­ning with the letter’s (ns).

Step (6) Log back into go daddy click on your domains and then change my DNS, which stands for DOMAIN-NAME-SERVER. Copy and paste the Name server in slot 1 then go back to host gator copy and paste the sec­ond one into the slot titled sec­ond or num­ber 2.

What you just did was point your domains to your host­ing provider choice. I don’t host with go daddy because they offer less and cost more. I don’t pur­chase domains from host gator because they are really expen­sive. How­ever, if cost is not an option for you, you could skip step 5,6 and just pur­chase your domain from the same per­son you host with. If you had to pick between go daddy and host­ga­tor Id say stick with hostgator.

Step (7) Once you are logged in click on the but­ton “fan­tas­tico” it is located in your host­ga­tor CPANEL, from there you will be taken to another page, scroll down and click on wordpress.

Step(8) Click new install, then fill out the fields, it’s pretty easy, self explana­tory. Once you are fin­ished with the wiz­ard you will be given a link to your admin panel and your website.

Step (9) Log in using your user name and pass­word you just spec­i­fied in the wiz­ard. Once you are logged in click on the appear­ance tab to the left, choose “themes” and then add new. Choose a spec­i­fi­ca­tion from your theme and then press search. Just choose one of the free themes and hit install.

Now click the word “Posts” in your dash­board, choose add new post– from here you can copy and paste any text, word doc what­ever you like and word press will auto­mat­i­cally ren­der it into html.

After you press the update but­ton, click the view post but­ton located at the top of the edi­tor. You should know see your work vis­i­ble and live on the internet.

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