All right, so where are we talking about Einstein, WordPress onto an actual paid hosting environment?
So this is going to be your own Web site on your own kind of server going on.
And to do that, you need two different things.
You're going to need a domain name, which is like the address that people type in to actually get to
your site and the other is going to be hosting.
There's a lot of different providers for both.
You've got people who just offer domain names.
You've got people who just offer hosting and a lot of people that offer both.
Now, there are some things to consider before just reaching out and finding the company and just purchasing
something.
It's not super complex.
And a lot of these sites will help kind of work you through it.
And for the most part, there's really no wrong answers.
But there are things to look out for.
Now, with hosting, you do get what you pay for with domain names.
You really just want to find the cheapest one because they're all the same.
Once you have the domain name, there's really no support that it gives you that maybe one offers a
little bit more of something than the other.
And to an extent there is where they can maybe provide some kind of like site like where they are hiding
the information about you, about you being the register for that domain name.
Little things like that, maybe.
But for the most part, I would just say just try to find the cheapest domain name.
All right.
So let's start with the basics here.
You can go to a site like GoDaddy, although it's not my favorite company, but it is a good provider
because they do have fairly inexpensive domain names and they offer hosting.
And sometimes when you purchase them both together, maybe get a little bit of a discount or they just
kind of work together a little bit easier.
If you're new at this, if you're an experienced web developer or have done this kind of thing before,
and maybe this would be old hat to you and you can just, you know, choose whatever company you want
to go with.
But for the most part, having both the domain name and the hosting on the same account is best.
GoDaddy does have a really good tech support as far as I'm concerned.
I've had to call them plenty of times.
And they've always been able to fix the problems.
And by having the domain name and the hosting together in the same location, they can help troubleshoot
things a little bit easier.
But again, it's not necessary.
You can always purchase a domain name at one place and the hosting at another place.
Now, when it comes to domain names, what's really cool is you can go ahead.
And just in the very top of the homepage here, go ahead.
Just type in whatever it is that you want to find.
So maybe you want to find my name Kether blog dot com and I can do a search of a domain name to see
if it's available.
Now, one thing that people do a lot of times is they'll just open up a new tab and they'll say Keith
Hurn blog dot com and they'll type it and say, oh, the site can't be reached.
Well, that must mean it's available.
It doesn't always mean it's available.
Some people may purchase a domain name and just hold on to it, not connected to anything.
Or maybe they can take it to a site and the site kind of hosting goes away and things get all funky
on this.
And so it looks like there's no site.
This does not mean that the domain name is available.
You need to go to a site like GoDaddy and do a search for it and they will tell you if it's available
or not.
So you can see right here, I looked it up and says Keith, her blog dot com is available for just two
ninety nine.
Wow, what a bargain.
It will also give me suggestions on some other domain names that I may want to purchase.
Now, this is kind of an up sell that they do personally, unless you're like a huge brand name, Coca-Cola,
Walmart, Apple, whatever.
I would not worry about purchasing all these other versions of your domain name.
There's really no need to.
People always question me on that.
And I would say, you know, unless you are a major brand, are you planning on becoming a major brand?
Don't worry about it.
Nobody's going to try to become the next Keith blog dot net and overtake my blog and have everybody
think that they are me kind of a thing, not something you have to worry about.
I would stick with just that.
Now, let's just say I typed in something simple like Keith Dotcom.
Now this is saying that this domain name is taken.
So what's nice about GoDaddy?
Not all these other sites do this, but there are other options, other extensions here.
Remember, that's not just dotcom or dot net anymore.
There's all sorts of new extensions like that one life dot services, dot online, things like that.
I'd be a little bit careful here because as you can see, I can buy Keithan or excuse me, Keith Dot
one for twelve ninety nine.
But some of these other ones are considered premium domain names.
They are a little bit more expensive.
They're a pretty expensive domain name.
Now there are other ones too that other people own and they're auctioning off on to here so they can
see this one's going for twenty four.
Eighty eight.
Very expensive.
Keith Jaedicke.
I'm not quite the one I was looking for there, but I could purchase this from somebody else.
Some of these can be auctioned.
Some of these can be just sold right through GoDaddy.
So kind of be careful what you're paying for before you just hit.
Add to cart and check out, but definitely go through here.
You may find some other versions, other extensions that are.
Out now that may apply to a little bit better if your domain name is taken, if not, go ahead and just
add it to the cart.
Now, other options are named chief dot com.
I like this one, I do buy domain names through these guys as well.
Sometimes the domain names are a little bit cheaper here.
It doesn't really matter where you buy it.
It's maybe look around, you can see build your website for three days a month.
So they're offering some other things as well
in motion hosting.
This is one we'll take a look at here in a minute for hosting.
But you can get your domain name through here as well.
Again, it's good to have both in the same place, but not necessarily so in the next video.
Let's go ahead and take a look at Hosteen and we'll see what we're looking for in a host.