Setting Up Nameservers
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Cajen | Filed under blogging, site matters, tutorial series
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I have finally decided to buy my own domain name, cajentutorials.com. I had to mull over it for a couple of days, but if you want to have branding and web presence, you absolutely NEED to have your own domain name. The process of selecting your domain name is of utmost importance as you and your site will be known by that name. This post from NetBusinessBlog helped me at arriving at a more informed decision. It lists advantages of having a .com domain over any other domains out there.
This tutorial is brief and involves setting up your nameservers once you have your own domain. I purchased my domain at Geek Domains, they have the cheapest recurring domain pricing I’ve seen @ $6.95/yr + $0.20 ICANN fee. My total is $7.15 for one year.
UPDATE: As Robert suggested, you also have the option of signing up for a free domain.
Anyway, now that I have my domain, I need to setup my nameservers, that way the domain will point to my free webhosting!
If you are planning to purchase your own domain and host it at 000webhost, you are gonna need to do the following. First, login to your 000webhost control panel and create a new account. For the domain, enter your new domain name and assign a password for it.
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Tags: blogging, branding, Domain Host, Domain Name, free domain, free webhosting, geek-domains, Nameserver, New Domain, Web Presence
Starting a Blog : The Prerequisites
Posted by Cajen | Filed under blogging, tutorial series
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It is surprisingly easy to start a blog. Maintaining one is a whole different story.
To start a blog you can go two routes: sign up for one through one of the blogging sites for free (Wordpress or Blogger are two of the more famous ones) or you can host one. I suggest that you host one, since you have better control over the blog plus you also have the flexibility of adding other features in the future (forums, e-commerce, etc.) since basically you have your very own website. The route I took is hosting.
For hosting, you need to understand two(2) terms: domain name and hosting. The domain name will be your hostname (yourblogname.com), or more loosely, your website’s address (www.yourblogname.com). Hosting is where your domain name points at - which is a physical server that has your website’s content. Think of the domain name as an address that points to a physical house. The physical house, or the host, has all the pertinent server specs, like speed, space allocated, bandwidth, etc. Now normally, these cost money. However, there are free webhosting sites that offers free sub domains. Yehey!
I used www.000webhost.com free webhosting services. Signing up is easy and you get these for free: 250MB disk space, and 100GB bandwidth. Disk space is the amount of disk space that you are allowed to upload and bandwidth is the amount of traffic allowed per month. It also has PHP and mySQL Support, which we are gonna be needing. Also, if you are looking to host your files locally, I suggest that you use XAMPP - you can read this post for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hi there and welcome! I am an accomplished gamer, programmer and web designer enthusiast, an artist interrupted, a budding entrepreneur, and now a blogger. Through this blog, I will be sharing you my thoughts and I hope that you do the same. This blog will contain blogging tips & tricks, fireworks tutorials, photoshop tutorials, web design, graphics, and then some. As I’ve mentioned in my first post, I claim no level of proficiency in any of the tutorials that I will be posting, however, I pride myself in being a good instructor and I will try to make them as easy as possible for everyone.