Free Wordpress Blog Hosting
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Hosting your blog on your own domain name has many advantages. You will find that most of the ebooks which teaches how to make money by blogging and experienced bloggers who share their tips to make money by blogging will recommend purchasing a hosting for your blog with your own domain name. Now, this can be a bit costly, especially purchasing a hosting plan. We can use that money to further increase our blogs traffic or do other things to improve our blog in the beginning stage. In this page, I’ll explain how to host your domain name for free without any ads in your page. However this should only be used in the beginning stages of developing your blog.(you’ll understand later why I said that).
The first thing you should do is to register a domain name. You can do so at the following websites or any other registrars you like.
[Eventhough the hosting provider that I'll mention later in this article provide their own domain, its always advisable to get your own domain name. Its not going to cost you much, at most $10.00(around RM 35) if you search for cheap registrars.]
After registering your domain, access your domain control panel and point your domain to these nameservers:
dns1.000webhost.com - 64.22.110.162
dns2.000webhost.com - 75.126.210.153
Next, visit 000webhost.com and sign up for an account. Here’s a quote from their website “Founded in December 2006, 000webhost.com has a trusted free hosting members base of over 60,000 members and still counting! Offering professional quality hosting, support, uptime and reliability, it have a great community of webmasters, you’d love to be a part of!”
This free hosting provides:
*** 250 MB of disk space
*** 100 GB of data transfer
*** PHP and MySQL support with no restrictions
*** cPanel control panel
*** Absolutelly no advertising! *** Free POP3 Email Box and Webmail access
*** FTP and Web based File Manager
The PHP and MySQL support features allows you to install Wordpress to your domain unlike other free hosting providers. Besides that it also has the famous cPanel for easy control of your files.
Since this service has no fantastico deluxe for easy installation of wordpress, we have to do it manually, but don’t worry, its very simple. You can find the step by step guide at Wordpress.com. But before you begin installing Wordpress, you need to create a MySQL database in your hosting account. This can be done by accessing you cPanel from your webhost account. After accessing your domain’s cPanel click on the MySQL database wizard.
1)Then, name your database.(Wordpress is good enough)
2)Next, create your username and password for your database.
3)Then click “all privileges” in step 3
Thats all, you’re done. You have created a MySQL database for your Wordpress installation. Next, follow the instructions in the Wordpress site for further instructions.
This information will help you to get a cheap jumpstart in your blogging venture. Hopefully, when your blog gets famous in future, receiving a lot of traffic and generating some decent amount of revenue, then you can move your domain to a paid hosting without the worry of losing your pagerank and backlinks. However, you will have to move on to a paid hosting in future because as you blog more, you need more space to save your files. But in the beginning stage, a free hosting with your own domain name is very preferable than other free blogs host which gives no freedom in using you own domain name.
