Hosting For Your Website

Once you have chosen your domain name you'll need to find somewhere to host your website.

A web host is a server (computer) that stores all the files that make up your website. It doesn't make sense to use your own computer as a web host as it would have to be connected to the internet all the time and potentially cope with hundreds or thousands of visitors per day. For this reason you need to find a web host to store these files for you.

It is possible to get a free hosting account, but although this is fine for a small personal website, I don't recommend going down this route for a business website. Free hosts normally have very little or no technical support, they can be very unreliable and you'll usually have to display adverts on your site. This looks very unprofessional if you are running your own business.

Below you will find my own personal recommendations for website hosting. I only recommend products and services that I have actually used myself, so for this reason I am recommending three different web hosts. I currently have websites on all three of these web hosts and I am happy with their services and costs.

If you want, you can also register your domain name with these companies when you sign up for a hosting account, but I recommend registering your domain name separately so that you always have control over it independently of your host. I register my domain names at Name Cheap

BlueHost

My top pick recommendation for website hosting is Blue Host. I currently host a number of my websites with this company and they are very reliable, with fully featured web hosting and good support. They have a full range of hosting features including cpanel and Fantastico for quick and easy install of Wordpress.

To host with Blue Host you need to pay for at least one year of hosting in advance. It works out at less than $7 per month and you also get a free domain name, so it is very reasonably priced. If you are unable to pay for a year of hosting upfront I recommend taking a look at Hostgator below instead.

Another great thing about Blue Host is that you can host as many websites as you like on a single domain for no additional hosting cost. So if you plan to have multiple websites, this is a very economical option.

Hostgator

HostGator is a very reliable web host that I have used for the last few years and is a good choice if you prefer to pay monthly.

Their basic plans start at less than $10 per month and includes unlimited disk space and bandwidth. You can also host as many different domains as you wish on the one account with this plan, which is great value.

You can use the coupon code wordpress at the checkout to get your first month of hosting for 1c.

Feature Article: Make the Leap to Home Based Business Success
Copyright &copy Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy



Before you can have a successful home based business, you must first possess 3 "intangibles." These are things that must come from WITHIN you.

===> Intangible 1 <===

First, you must have a strong WHY.

Why MUST you have a successful home business? What is driving you? What is it that you CAN'T have in your life anymore and/or what is it that you absolutely MUST HAVE now?

For me, I couldn't stand working 12+ hours a day anymore and missing the experience of my children growing up. I also absolutely HAD TO HAVE the freedom of being able to control my life and finances through a little box (laptop computer) that I could carry with me anywhere in the world and not be tied to anyone's time pressures or demands but my own. That was my carrot and my stick. I felt a great pain deep in my gut of missing out on my children's lives and the incredible freedom that succeeding in a home based business would provide for me. I found my why. You MUST find yours.

===> Intangible 2 <===

You must BELIEVE that it is possible.

If you don't believe that it's POSSIBLE for you to have a successful home based business or make your living from home, you won't. It's that simple.

For me, figuring out that it was possible was just a matter of realizing that many other people were ALREADY making great money working from home. If they could do it, I could too. It would just be a matter of figuring out what those people were doing and then adapting it to my situation.

There is no shortage of undeniable PROOF that people (millions of them) are making money working from home. Just get online and do some research and you'll find countless testimonials and stories of REAL PEOPLE making real money on the Internet. Or head to your local bookstore and you'll find the same documented evidence of this fact. Truth is, it's getting easier and easier to make money with your own home based business.

I've always said that "affiliate marketing" (a simple way to make money from home) is the job of the future. In the "old" days, you had to go to a potential employer, apply for the position and hope for the best. Now you can simply go to any company you want, fill out their affiliate application and start work immediately. Affiliates are the new working class. In fact, making money with affiliate programs or making your living on the Internet is WAY MORE than possible. It is pretty much (or will be soon enough) unavoidable now. Affiliate marketing is the "job" of the future that's already here TODAY.

===> Intangible 3 <===

You must be willing to MAKE THE LEAP.

Ready, FIRE, then aim... This is the operating philosophy you MUST adopt to succeed with a home based business.

That's backwards for most people who like to aim before they fire. The fact is that home based business success is a moving target... The only thing constant about it is change. You need to stop analyzing the game and simply jump into it. You can't learn from the outside... You have to be IN THE RING to truly understand it.

The lesson here is that you will never really be READY to start a home based business. You simply have to start one. It's like having children... You're never really ready, but when it happens you adapt and grow. This is what I call "Making the Leap."

The good news is that the cost of failure with having your own home based business is very small. In the "brick and mortar" world you need to evaluate things very carefully before you decide to open up a business. It's almost always necessary to invest thousands of dollars to get an offline business off the ground. However, on the Internet you can often start a successful business for less than $100.

You simply need to get IN THE GAME... Each moment that you stay "out there," you're wasting valuable time that you could be learning and skills necessary to build a successful home based business. In fact, if you're not in the game yet, you're ALREADY behind the times. Make the leap to creating a successful home based business today!

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