Starting a Self-Hosted Blog – Part 2: Cost Effective Domain Registrars and Web Hosts
By Zaheer Ahmed Khan on Oct 17, 2009 with Comments 2
You can find a lot of domain registrars selling domains for $2.8 or maybe less. But you should be very careful while picking up a domain registrar or a web host. This topic is related to the series of our tutorial “Starting a Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog” and will cover the tips and tricks of how you can buy domains for famous and credible domain registrars and hosts being cost efficient. In last episode, we talked about the benefits of having a self-hosted Wordpress Blog. Once you have chosen a domain registrar or web host, give some time to investigate about it. You will find that many of them are providing bad services, some of them do not refund, some of them have bad customer service etc. etc. etc. But again, there are people who write bad reviews about their rival hosts or domain registrars. Let’s start with the tips and tricks to find a domain registrar or web host.
Tips and Tricks to Find a Better Domain Registrar and Web Host
As we are talking about cost effective domain registrars and web hosts, there is strong possibility that there could be some black sheep in the jungle. Search with specific keywords about a specific host or domain registrar. The usual searches are say for hostgator (webhosting provider) are; hostgator reviews, hostgator up time, hostgator service. That may end up with some fake reviews. Try searching with some slangs i.e. hostgator suck, hostgator sucks, etc. You will be amazed to see the search results.
SOME GOOD DOMAIN REGISTRARS
Discount Coupon Code Sharing Websites
Once you have selected a registrar, go to Google and search for the coupon codes. There are many codes available which give you discounts on Domain purchase. Below is the list of some Discount Coupon Sharing Websites;
SOME GOOD AND LOW COST WEB HOSTS
Discount Coupon Codes
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To help TechReaders.com visitors, we in collaboration with AirStair.com proudly announce that all serious bloggers who either want to start self-hosted blogs or want to move from a third party service like blogger.com or wordpress.com to their own self-hosted blogs will get FREE WEB HOSTING FOR 1 YEAR*. So, the only cost you would be paying to start a blog, is domain price.
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Nice article , Well Written – when you are going to update it. I have bookmarked it in My favorites
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