How to Get Your Website Up & Running?

If you want to make an online presence then you will need your own website. Whether you want to make your personal blog or business website, you will need hosting account. In this article, we will see what the exact procedure to make online presence is.

In order to make a website, you will first need to register a domain name. You can register a domain name from any domain registrar. There are many domain registrars who offer domain registration service. Domain registration costs you around $11-$15 per year. I would suggest you to register a domain name from name.com or dreamhost.com.

Once the domain name is registered, you will need the hosting account. In the hosting account, you will put all your website’s files. Registering a domain name is a different thing then purchasing a hosting account.

The domain name gives your website a name and you need hosting account to put all your files. So domain name actually points where your files are hosted.

Now you need to purchase a hosting account. For hosting, I would suggest DreamHost or HostGator. Both companies provide great service for hosting. DreamHost offers 2 weeks free trial and HostGator offers 1 month of trial for 1 cent.

If you are going to purchase HostGator service then you can use discount codes to get a discount. You can get up to 50% of discount using the HostGator promo codes.

Once the hosting is purchased, you need to set domain name servers for your domain. When you purchase a hosting you will get name servers details. Name server points your domain name to the IP address where your files are hosted.

To set the name servers, you need to go to the registrars then login to your account. There you will find change the name server option. Change the name server to the name servers which you got from hosting account.

Once the name servers are set, you are done. That’s it. Now just upload the html or php files in to your hosting account and your website will show those files when accessed.

If you don’t understand how to subscribe to the hostgator service then watch the following video to understand the signup process. Also you will know where to use the coupon to get discount.

Now have fun with your online presence.