All right, so we left off in the last video talking about domain names and where to purchase them from.
Go ahead and just purchase, you know, whatever you're looking for.
Remember, you can always change it around later.
You can always have a different domain name point back to the same hosting will kind of get into that
stuff later on.
But purchase your host your domain name now, depending on who you purchase that through, there may
be some things that they offer as an add on like emails or again, kind of securing your information
so it's not available to the public.
As far as who registered for that domain name, they may show your information of like your name, your
address, maybe your phone number.
I don't remember.
There are some different information.
You mean like that down?
I think that's another 10, 15 bucks a month or a year.
Excuse me.
Just depends on who you're going to with, but something you may want to look at, really, for the
most part, I don't worry about the upsides.
I just go right to the domain name and just purchase that and I'm all set.
Now, when it comes to hosting, that's a little bit different of a ballgame.
Now, that may run a different price depending on who you go to.
There are a lot of great host on this show.
You a couple and Michigan what to watch out for.
So this is where things kind of start to get a little bit where you want to really pay attention to
and put a little bit thought into maybe not just not go for the cheapest one, because the cheaper sometimes
the more kind of issues you're going to have.
So for the most part, there are two different types of hosting their shared hosting, which is where
you are on a server with possibly hundreds of other websites.
You are sharing that server with them.
That means that if one of the websites gets hacked, there is a slim chance that your website could
get hacked as well, even though they're not, you know, the same domain name, they are on the same
server.
So there is potential more of a concern personally is the speed of the server.
Remember, a server is just a computer and you kind of computer where it has a processor.
It has RAM and it has hard drive space.
So they're going to fill out that hard drive.
And all those websites are still just like a program on your desktop.
They are competing for the RAM and the processor speed on your website excuse me, and your computer.
So your website may slow down if another website on that server is using a lot of RAM or a lot of processor
speed just depends on what's going on.
So maybe there is a ton of videos that another website uploaded on the server and a ton of people are
all of a sudden watching those videos on that other website.
Again, even though it has nothing to do with your website, yours may slow down a little bit because
all those videos are taking up the RAM and the processor speed of the server.
So I kind of think about that.
Amachi what?
Those are here in a second.
One other thing that there are a couple of options for is the type of server that you're going on now.
There are typically, for the most part, two options, Windows servers and Linux servers.
Personally, 99 times out of 100, I use a Linux server.
WordPress runs just fine on a Windows server as well.
But I just find the software that runs on a Linux server is a little bit more robust.
I like a little bit better.
You may get different opinions from different people who are more into Windows servers.
I think there may be a little bit more secure, some other options there, just maybe look into it.
But for the most part, I stick with a Linux server.
And I'm sure that as we get into this now, a lot of hosts, they offer different types of hosting.
So you can see that there is hosting up here, which we can take a look at and.
You can see what they offer web shared hosting, then virtual private server.
So this is where you get a portion of a server and you get that certain amount of ram and processor
speed allocated to any Web site that you put on that server.
And then there's a dedicated server where the entire server to yourself, all the ram, all the processor
speed, you get a ton of room and your site is going to be lightning fast for the most part.
But you're going to pay the price for that.
So you've got Web hosting and this is all of your basic shared hosting accounts.
So 249 among all the way up to 20 bucks a month.
These are for all the different you know, just the amount of space is basically the difference that
you're getting, the amount of space on that server that you're getting a managed WordPress site.
So this is a little bit different.
A lot of hosts are starting to come out with a server specifically for WordPress.
They will offer some kind of a nice thing.
So for the most part, I have been going more with these managed WordPress Web sites.
You can see they're just a little bit more per month, but definitely worth it because you're starting
to run a little bit faster.
And then the other two options we looked at up there were the VPs, the virtual private server.
You're getting that portion of a server dedicated to you and you can run a bunch of websites on here.
So for about 18 bucks a month compared to four bucks a month, you know, if you're ever going to host
four or five, six Web sites, yeah, I would definitely get the VPs at such a great option.
I have actually, I think three VPs accounts.
Definitely a great way to run a website.
And if you really know what you're doing and you really need a ton of speed and a ton of room on a server,
70 bucks a month, you get a fully dedicated server.
Great options there.
GoDaddy, again, if you're going to go up to the VPs or maybe the WordPress, I would say you're probably
fine sticking with them.
I'm not a huge fan of them as a host.
I do like their domain names.
We did see that name.
Cheap is offering hosting.
You can see they have the same kind of thing or they've got shared hosting plans, very similar in price
here.
WordPress hosting a dollar a month.
Wow, what a great deal.
So a lot of these you get to watch out for because then they renew after a year for a little bit higher
per month.
But you can see that that was still the same price that GoDaddy was offering.
I think they were three ninety nine as opposed to three eighty eight who will even since I can save
another host I really like is InMotion again, same kind of options you get the VPs, the dedicated
different types of business, hosting, shared hosting, kind of the same thing right there, a little
bit more per month.
But they're also a very good company, really good tech support.
I really like them.
I have a VPs with them.
They do have WordPress hosts and I have that with them as well.
They have a couple of different packages here.
And again, you can see they're a little bit more expensive, but you're actually getting a lot more
with this one comes of the free domain name.
So maybe that's something you want to look at and get a free kind of roll it all into there.
You can get a ton of SSD storage.
That's great.
That stands for Solid State Drive, which is a very fast, hard drive.
It's more like RAM stuff is something you want to look for when you get into WordPress websites.
Another site that I really like and if you to pull it up here is site ground dotcom, get a little bit
more expensive, but they are a great, great hosting company.
You can see these start at three ninety five a month, but they kind of renew at eleven ninety five
a month.
They have a lot of great options in there.
They have things that will speed up your website.
They have things that will look for malware and viruses on a regular basis.
So this is something to maybe consider.
I do host with them as well.
I really like site ground a lot.
So really any of those options I would stick with you start to get into some other random websites that
offer free hosting or a dollar a month hosting.
You're going to get what you pay for.
So just be careful.
If you don't want to spend a lot, maybe stick with GoDaddy in the beginning.
You can always move stuff around later on.
But personally, I would say their site, ground or InMotion would be where I would start.
So the next video we're going to talk about, actually, after you've purchased all this stuff, what
to do next.