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Starting a Self-Hosted Blog – Part 2: Cost Effective Domain Registrars and Web Hosts

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 [...]

Starting a Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog – Part 1: Benefits of Self-Hosted Blog

I receive emails regularly from TechReaders.com visitors who want to start their own Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog. Before I continue further, let me just give you brief detail about what is Self-Hosted blog. To be very précised, a self-hosted blog is a blog on your Web Servers without involving any third party like blogger or wordpress.com. So, instead of having a blog like youname.blogger.com or yourname.wordpress.com, you will have a youname.com blog. In this and some future articles, I will guide you how you can start a cost effective self-hosted wordpress blog. This is not a rocket science and you all will learn it quickly. You just need to keep yourself updated with the future tutorials. This series of guides will consist of following tutorials:

Benefits of having a self-hosted blog
Cost Effective/Low Price Domain Registrars and Web Servers
Installation of Wordpress CMS (Content Management System)
Finding Free Themes
Finding, Installation and a [...]