All right, so in the last couple of videos, we have looked at where to get a domain name from, where
to get hosting from and the different options that you have for it, that is going to be the first thing
you want to do to really decide on where your blog is going to be taken to.
I say that because, again, we talked about the shared hosting being a little bit slower, the WordPress
hosting being a little bit faster, and the different options that come with each person.
You want to keep it simple, maybe just by both through GoDaddy, keep it really simple or blow-by-blow
through emotion, really simple.
I think even Sigrun, do they have domain names?
I'm pretty sure you can purchase a domain name through them as well, even though they're not specifically
saying it right up here.
But go ahead and get one of those.
What that'll do is get the domain name and the hosting connected together.
If you buy them separately, I must show you how to do that is connect them as well.
Not a big deal to do, but let's take a look.
So you've purchased one of these.
They're going to send you information on how to get into something called a C panel or a control panel.
This is going to be where you're going to go to set up your WordPress Web site.
So I have one already pulled up here.
And this is typically what a C panel looks like now, they may have a couple of.
Now there are different skins for this.
Let me look a little bit differently.
But all this information is, for the most part, pretty much the same.
Now, this is a test domain name that I set up with hosting on one of my VPs.
And so I'm going to use this for demonstration purposes here.
So what this is in control panel is this gives you kind of back and access to everything about the server
that you're on now, not your website necessarily, but the server that you're on.
So maybe I want to upload a file to my website.
When you first log in, you're going to see maybe a bunch of things like this.
Maybe you're going to see all these files with a dot in front of them.
Every host will be a little bit different.
But for the most part, you're going to want to just look at the public HTML file and you can see that's
completely empty right now.
The CGI bin, that's all part of the Hosteen.
So that's really nothing.
You need to worry about something that shows up.
But here I can start to upload files to my website.
Maybe I just wanted to have a place where people could download PDF for a little while or graphics,
things like that.
This is just kind of the starting point if you ever needed to.
These kinds of things that control panel gives you access to some of the other things that gives access
to is a database and to scare you off.
But you will be installing a database.
It's very, very simple to do.
I'll show you one way we can kind of avoid that when installing WordPress.
But WordPress works off of a database.
So if you ever needed to go in and the database that is here with some hosting accounts, you can actually
add on other domain names to your hosting.
So you could have you could hope you could host multiple sites on one hosting account here.
You could also add a subdomain.
So maybe you wanted to do a different language of your blog so you can maybe just have your main blog.
You know, again, Keith Dotcom as an English speaking blog that maybe you wanted to translate to Portuguese
and German or whatever else you wanted to do, Spanish, you could create a subdomain that could be
like Espanol, DOT, Keith Dotcom, something like that.
So you can set up those sub domain names here.
It's also a place where you can go and set up emails for your account.
You can visit, you can see your stats or the websites.
How many people are visiting your website?
These are usually very detailed lists, errors.
Maybe someone is hitting an error page on your website.
You take a look at that and you get that fixed.
Different things like that, security.
You want to set up some kind of security.
Again, for the most part, I wouldn't worry too much about that kind of stuff.
The host handle a lot of that, I'm sure some other ways to actually secure your website later on.
Most of this stuff is stuff you'll never, ever worry about.
But what you're looking for is a very quick and easy way to install your WordPress website.
And I must show you that in the next video.