| These days, it doesn't make sense to pay a lot of | | | | can get a better deal for two-year contracts if you |
| dough to host your Web site. I am going to give you | | | | call their customer support line rather than signing up |
| three alternatives that won't cost you more than $5 | | | | online. Still, it works out to $5 a month, on top of the |
| a month. All three are great for people who don't | | | | registrar fee to register your domain. |
| have a lot of HTML coding expertise and don't want | | | | Why Linux? Because we will be using their |
| to shell out the big bucks to pay for graphic | | | | WordPress..org installation, and that works better on |
| designers and programmers. I have built sites using all | | | | Linux. You don't need to know anything about Linux |
| three methods and while they do have their | | | | to run your site, you get the same great features of |
| limitations, they are all acceptable for handling the | | | | having a world-class blogging platform that you have |
| basics, and in some cases will do a lot more | | | | with a hosted site, and you can do a lot more with it |
| advanced things as well. | | | | as well. |
| Let's start off with GoDaddy. First, we choose | | | | Included in the GoDaddy hosting account are a ton |
| whatever dotcom name your little heart desires, and | | | | of free applications. Besides WordPress, you can |
| hopefully is still available.. Next, we take a look at | | | | install Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, PostNuke, various |
| what GoDaddy offers for its own Web hosting plans. | | | | shopping cart applications, phpBB, and dozens more. |
| If you go to their sign-up page online, you will see | | | | The WordPress install is very straightforward and |
| lots of choices. Pick the Economy Plan for Linux. If | | | | takes a few minutes, and once that is done you can |
| you want to host more than one domain from the | | | | use your Web browser to run just about everything |
| same server, you would pick the Deluxe Plan. You | | | | that you require. |