Thought I update my blog with a little info.
Been spending a lot of time in the library recently, and its a lot more productive than staying in my room.
I get lazy at home!
Lets start!
YourOwnName.com
Well, today’s topic will be about getting you own website. As you can see its pretty cool to have your own name as a domain website. I OWN THAT, and other Kingston Liu’s in the world have no chance EVER getting that!
Email with Own Address
One thing about having your own domain is that you get to have your own email too. No gmail/hotmail/yahoo mail, its just your Email@yourname.com or anything you can create. It makes it unique and a little more professional.
I have 5 personal emails on my Iphone, each sorted out for different priority! One email is just made for signing up websites, so its full of spam, so with your own email you can have separate emails too for family/friends/work/enemies.
You can even create emails for your family (i.e: Mum@yourname.com), friends or just for your sweetheart I.e: Sweetheart@yourname.com (she’s got her own personal email on her bb or iphone, its like direct personal email. Made one for my gf, and its one of the sweetest ideas EVER)
Your own Blog
Even blogs are easy to set up, and customized. You can have http://blog.yourname.com or yourname.com/blog or just about any name you can come out with….youarechecking.yourname.com!! see how fun that is.
No more blah.blog*pot.com or any other free blog service with banners all over and limited customization.
Hosting It
I’ve owned my domain name for almost 3 years now. Most people don’t know having a domain is just having that name, but hosting it is another part. Hosting is the stuff that stores your data/pages/images on the net. Domains are registered name that links to your host.
Generally, domains are owned for 1 year, but you can just pay for 2-3 years, it will be cheaper. Hosting packages are normally paid monthly, but to sign on for 2-3 years its just cheaper and more cost effective. I started out with having an overseas (US) host, it was cheaper, but there is always a downside to cheaper host. They are shared with a lot of people, so it tends to be slower, and having the server overseas slows it down too.
So last year, I signed up for a local server, was slightly more expensive, but not really that expensive. The server is located in Malaysia, since thats where my INITIAL target visitors are from, so I it was perfect. I signed up and transferred my data over, and got it going.
Been with Exabytes.com.my for almost a year now, so far so good. Customer support is good, servers are not super fast, but for blogging and basic static web pages, its good for me. They have few different packages to suit your hosting needs, but overall everything is pretty affordable.
One thing good about them was that they did my data transfer for me for free, so it was hassle free. The other great part was that I was able to transfer my remaining 3 months left on my old hosting to Exabytes for free, so they added additional 3 months worth of hosting service, just because I moved over.
They have automated web services like wordpress blog, gallery, online shop and all that. Just one click and you get all those services running, thats how I got my blog running.
So feel free to check out EXABYTES and sign up a hosting under me!
Link up your blog here when your done!
Click on the banner to have a look!
Interesting info about web hosting. Very fun to browse too. Lots to learn since I need a good info on web hosting.
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