How To Start A Www.yourname.com Website For Less Than $3 Within 1 Hour

To start a website with your name or any domain name you prefer, you will need these ingredients.

1. Register domain name (10 minutes)
2. hosting (10 minutes)
3. Domain name setting (10 minutes)
4. Scripts for Blog or anything (30 minutes)

Let’s get started right now.

Step 1
If you type “buy domain” in google you will get not less than 18 millions results and most of them range between $5 to $10.
In order to keep in our budget, we need some special pricing from the seller.

1. $1.99 Yahoo Promotion
2. $1.99 GoDaddy with Promotion code 199TEST

* I believe there are more promotion going all the time. If you happen to find a better deal, kindly email me so I can share with all readers.

Domain Registration is pretty straight forward.
If you choose Yahoo $1.99, all you need to do is to check whether yourname.com is still available or not. You should see something like below:

While with GoDaddy, once you got your domain name, they will pop you quite a few add on which will cost you more. Skip these offers until you reach the final page with total amount.
Enter the Promotion Code you should see something like this:

Step 2
Next, we’ll proceed with hosting to host our website and domain.
Again, there are a lot choices around even and we can easily get a hosting.
The keywords hosting is FREE, No Force Advertisement, Database support, cPanel, Diskspace, Data Transfer and allow to host domain.

1 of hosting service provider that cover all these for FREE is 000webhost.

All you need to do is signup with them, select the option “I want to host my own domain” and put in your domain name.

Step 3
After you completed the domain hosting registration. You need to tell your domain where is your scripts or files.
If you are using Yahoo $1.99, login to your Yahoo Small Business Home as below.

Click on the Domain Control Panel - Manage Advanced DNS Settings - click on Change Nameservers - type in your Nameservers.

* What is Nameservers?
Nameservers can be found by logging on to 000webhost members area, entering control panel and navigating to ‘View Account Details’.

Step 4
Last step - Login to your 000webhost cPanel.
Scroll down and look for an icon Fantastico, click on that icon!

In the next screen after clicking the Fantastico, you shall see a long list of scripts. Well, I don’t think I’ll go through 1 by 1 with you.
Let say you want a personal blog, Wordpress, you will click on Wordpress and follow the installation steps.

That’s all~
Within 1 hour and $3, you have your personal website setup.

Here is another tips.
What about some traffic or visitors to your website?
Digg your personal website at digg.com , stumbleupon.com , propeller.com , add it in your forum signature , set it as your messenger status.
An interesting topic or headline will bring you not less than 100 visitors a day.
Enjoy and have fun!

Oh yeah! Important Reminder!
Yahoo $1.99 is only applicable for 1st year. If you want to continue own this domain, I would suggest you transfer to other domain seller because Yahoo charge $34.95 for second year onwards!

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