Website hosting was always a black box for me until I figured out Wordpress. One of the most easiest way of hosting website. I had a great experience in hosting my site with Wordpress, so I thought of listing out what need to be done so that others can also have fun with their own.
There are two main thing which need to be done:
- Get your domain name registered with any of service provider, I had registered my site with godaddy.They took around 18$ from providing domain name for 2 years validity. We need to keep renewing the account. Use paypal for paying your funds.
- Then you need to find some place where you want to host your website. There are many providers who will provide server space for free. One such provider is 11omb. I created free account with 110mb and uploaded my contents.
You can also get server space from the service provider also, but you might have to pay them a bit more $’s. To do some cost cutting I hosted on 110MB.com and did a Name space mapping from godaddy.com to 110mb.com.
DNS records should be set to: NS1.110MB.COM & NS2.110MB.COM
Just login 110mb.com with your user name and password and start uploading the files and access it with you domain name.
Now that you have your domain name and hosting area, how do you develop a website which is very easy to maintain. Wordpress is one point solution for all these, just down load wordpress and follow the read me, now just upload all the files to 11omb and you are all set with your site. Also note that wordpress does require mysql support so purchase Mysql support from 11omb by paying 10$.
If you have any further help on hosting site please feel free to contact me. Hope this helps many aspirants who are hoping to host their own sites.
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