You can literally create any website in 3o mins and that’s too without having knowledge of programming. Also it will just cost you as low has $10 to create your first website that is fully hosted on server.
You just follow this article step by step and at the end of this article you will have your website running.
Register a Domain Name
First thing first, you need to register Domain Name. For instance this blogs domain name is “bitactro.com“. You need to register a domain name for your website. You can use websites like GoDaddy.com, Namecheap.com, Bluehost etc. Go to any of these websites register a domain name for your website. It’s not free but its very cheap maybe $10 to $20 for a year. Make sure you did not choose domain name which is a trademark to avoid any legal issues later.
Buy a Hosting
Now, you have domain name but its not showing up anything when you type it up in browser because no one is serving it. You need to host your website. Big companies like Google, Amazon have there own hosting servers installed and running all the time. It’s very costly to setup our own self hosting because you need to buy hardware, you need to have technical skills to set-up, electricity cost, maintenance cost, cooling cost as hardware running all time requires cooling.
Believe me if you self host your website on your server you will end up paying approx. about $2000 a month, taking consideration all costs for a small scale website. So, I would never recommend this. So how do we get hosting?
No need to worry, there are many big companies who are providing hosting services. These companies have everything, all hardware required, highly technical skilled employees working for them and they promise up-time of about >99% which is really awesome. Cost of hosting would be around $5 to $10 for small scale website ideally for blogs and small businesses. There are many hosting companies but I would recommend Bluehost to you because I use the same and their service is great and that’s too at best price. You can get hosting plans at as low as $2.99 a month if you sign up through this referral link. If extra packages are selected by default just mark unchecked to remove it. You will end up paying about 35 dollars for a year. Which is literally very cheap.
Link Domain with Hosting
For this you can follow this great 6 min video as it is. I think it become quite easy to do this task by watching from a video.
Hurray! You just created your first website which is live and running now.
Now, you have wordpress installed website and you can experiment with different themes and layout for your website and can start blogging. Good luck.
If you have any issues or something feel free to reach out on twitter @bitactro.
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