After nearly 5 months of free blogging under blogger.com server, its now the right time to consider migrating to my own domain and self hosted blog. There are nothing wrong with blogger.com, in fact for me blogger.com is still the best platform for free hosting service. It offers everything you ever need for your blogging satisfaction. I've learned everything about HTML, CSS and etc just by playing around with the blogger.com template.
It is just a matter of expanding the blog capacity, thanks for the good article by webpronews.com. If you just want to blog to keep in contact with relatives and friends in another state or just to have your voice heard, you cant beat the hosted versions for making that an easy thing to do. However, if you want to control what kinds of ads appear on your blog, how it’s marketed and how it’s developed as a brand for your business then you are definitely going to want to lean towards hosting it yourself.
In other words, if you want to use your blog for business, you should be thinking about hosting it yourself. Thats what I'm thinking right now.
Here are the tips that I've received from a very helpful blogger, opps... for national security reason, the source prefer to remain anonymous he he he.
So decide on domain name and buy frm godaddy or any of ur chosen domain registrar. When buying a domain name look for those registrars with ICANN certification for greater security and stability.
Mentioned earlier, a host is a server which provides a home or premises for the domain or weblog address which you have bought. The host contains all the files needed to run your website and is where you upload all files needed for your web contents.
The web host chosen should be reliable with minimum 99.95% uptime. Next you need to look at the bandwidth and diskspace. Bandwidth is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to your visitor's computer when they browse your site. The bigger the bandwidth, the more traffic can access your website at the same time. Bigger diskspace is especially useful if your site need to keep a lot graphic,audio or video files.
If you have acquired a domain name and has signed up with a different web host, next is to change the DNS or domain name server from the domain registrar to point to your web host. This step is essential.
Method - Login to your account with the domain name registrar, look for your domain name and then click on change of DNS or Nameservers. Usually you have 2 boxes filled with Nameserver 1 and Nameserver 2. Overwrite these with the ones provided by your hosting company in their email to you. You are done and next is to install WP.
In other words, if you want to use your blog for business, you should be thinking about hosting it yourself. Thats what I'm thinking right now.
Here are the tips that I've received from a very helpful blogger, opps... for national security reason, the source prefer to remain anonymous he he he.
You must buy domain name before you sign up with hosting company. It is common practice to buy domain and hosting from different companies. Using two service providers, when problem persists, it is easier to replace one service than to replace two.Beware of hosting package that includes a free domain name. This domain name may not be registered under your name but under the domain registrar cum web host who gets good deal for registering domain names in bulk. Things can get unpleasant if you decide to change domain registrar or hosting company when the domain is not registered under your name.
So decide on domain name and buy frm godaddy or any of ur chosen domain registrar. When buying a domain name look for those registrars with ICANN certification for greater security and stability.
Mentioned earlier, a host is a server which provides a home or premises for the domain or weblog address which you have bought. The host contains all the files needed to run your website and is where you upload all files needed for your web contents.
The web host chosen should be reliable with minimum 99.95% uptime. Next you need to look at the bandwidth and diskspace. Bandwidth is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to your visitor's computer when they browse your site. The bigger the bandwidth, the more traffic can access your website at the same time. Bigger diskspace is especially useful if your site need to keep a lot graphic,audio or video files.
If you have acquired a domain name and has signed up with a different web host, next is to change the DNS or domain name server from the domain registrar to point to your web host. This step is essential.
Method - Login to your account with the domain name registrar, look for your domain name and then click on change of DNS or Nameservers. Usually you have 2 boxes filled with Nameserver 1 and Nameserver 2. Overwrite these with the ones provided by your hosting company in their email to you. You are done and next is to install WP.
6 comments:
actually i was under with blogger.com and i cant find any thing that is wonderful as blogger.com was
like you, it teaches me a lot of thing too and played around with their wonderful templates
they actually now availablke for uploading youtube videos without adsense in your blog
your blog is so imformative
more power
merry christmas to you
you're right bluedreamer27, blogger.com is just excellent..for a free hosting.
do you have any particular hosting company in mind since there are so many nowadays? what kind of biz you intend to venture into?
cayalah etomyam .. wonderful n magnificent blog .. padat cam tomyam gak .. meh semangkuk ..
Yalah what biz? I guess tomyam biznes. Special, power tomyam like strawberry tomyam, green tea tomyam n choc tomyam I hope.
em..good.at last.but,i lovve wordpress 2.but i dont know anything about hosting and domain..can u help me..hee.any tips?actually,i think the most important part is transferring free blog hosting space to the paid hosting. n a bit tricky for newbie like me.
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