In my previous post, I discuss on how to register a domain name at GoDaddy. The next thing to do is to buy a web hosting so that we can make our web files available over the internet. Now the question is where to buy a webhosting. My short answer is HostGator (HG). HG is the worlds leading provider of web hosting services. The people behind this company are truly dedicated and highly valued their integrity. These are depicted through the kind of service and support they rendered to their costumers. The HG's founder and CEO, Brent Oxley himself is doing costumer service even to the least of their clients. I am one of the very satisfied hundreds-of-thousands of clients of HostGator. I've been with them since November 2008 and all I can remember are websites that are 99.99% uptime, good costumer support and lots and lots of functionality in a very affordable price. I am using the latest cPanel to manage my websites at the backend.

Finding your web host is one of the initial steps in doing online business. Although not all individual engaged in online business needs a website, all internet business use website as a medium of pursuing business. Paid web hosting must simply be part of the business plan.

In my previous post, I talked about the cost of running a small website. The cost calculated in that post is for small e-commerce site that accepts online payments and for website owners who don't have any technical knowledge in building a website. This post will focus about the cost of running a blog. Then you may ask, "What is a blog? Isn't that a blog is a website?". This post is not about blog and blogging, this is about the cost of running one, so here is a link to Wikipedia if you want to know what is a blog.

One of my previous post discuss on how to start your own website. This post will give you an idea on how much a website will cost you.

Small business owners realize the importance of putting up a website for better exposure of their product and/or service. Those who successfully staged their online presence enjoys the many benefits of having a website. Still, many are not doing websites; one of the many factors is the cost, not because they can't afford it, but because they don't have any idea on how much it cost. This post will focus on costs in running small websites suited for small businesses.

If you want to have a space in the internet but you don't know how or where to start, then this post is for you. There are many ways to start your own website and I understand that it is overwhelming at the start. Now let's make it very simple. I am confident that you will learn how to run a website after you finish reading this post. So let's start.

Web host and domain

There are only two things you need in order to run a website: a host and a domain. A host is a computer where you save all your images, files, folders, and web pages. The host must be always ON so that it can serve request/s at any time of the day and night. The host computer is called server. Domain is the web address of your site, anybody can open your website by writing its domain at the browser's address bar. Example of a domain is rtfverterra.com, when you type rtfverterra.com at the address bar, the browser will land at the front page of this blog.