We like to keep our ear to the ground for low prices on website hosting related products, and I just happened to be taking a look at the iPowerWeb site and noticed that they are offering Domain Registrations for only $2.95.
This is a really good deal and of course some conditions apply. These conditions are:
1. $2.95 is for the first year only. Renewals are charged at the normal $8.25 - Pretty standard stuff.
2. This low price applies only for new customers. Again pretty standard - they just want to create some new business.
3. Offer limited to 50 domains. Fair enough.
If you are after more than 50 domains, the recomend that you give them a call to discuss their special volume pricing.
So, if you are after a few new domains, go and check out iPowerWeb before they raise their prices.
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One thing that is important about publishing your website is getting some visitors. To do this you will find that you will engage in Website Public Relations - either consciously or sub-consciously.
A good resource for Online PR can be found at Conversation Blog
that is run by Philippe Borremans and was set up because Philippe believes that there is a need for a new approach to what is called “Media Training” and he also wants to train communications professionals to use weblogs and RSS technology in their daily work.
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Here at Website Hosting IQ, we aim to bring you news and advice from the world of Website Hosting. So, today we have just set up the Website Hosting IQ Newsletter.
Subscribe now in the box on the right hand side of this page and keep yourself updated with news from our website.
We have also installed the Wordpress Notable Plugin so that you can easily add anything of interest that you find here to your favourite social bookmarking websites.
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We have teamed up with DreamHost.com to provide anyone who signs up for hosting with a $50 discount on hosting for anything from 1 month up to 2 years! Just use the promo code WSHIQ when signing up.
DreamHost are a well respected hosting company who have been around since 1997. They have grown their business from using a Pentium 100 web server on a shared T1 (given to them at no cost) - and are now operating 700 servers with a permanent staff of 40 people.
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Hosting a Wordpress blog on your own domain is both affordable and easy.
There are also many advantages for doing this including having a professional look and feel for your business or brand and having a lot more control on how your blog is set up and administered. Basically you will pretty much have total control, since it will be your domain, your disk space and your Wordpress installation.
However, for many people, the idea of setting up their own website with their own domain name is a daunting task. Fortunately, this is a very simple and straight forward task where there are fundamentally just 4 things that need to be taken care of:
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When you have finally decided on a name for your website and then gone through the trauma of finding that the domain name has already been taken.. and then gone through the process of finding another name or twisting the original name around to one that has not been taken - you can then go ahead and purchase that domain name and get on the road to setting up your website.
There is however one thing that you will need to do before you can get your lovingly crafted HTML published on the web, and that is setting your Domain Name Server/Settings (DNS).
So what is DNS?
DNS basically a big database that is distributed across a network, such as the internet, that stores easy-to-remember domain names such as websitehostingiq.net against its respective IP address such as 66.249.89.104 - which are not so easy-to-remember.
So when you buy your Domain Name from your Domain Registrar you then have to configure your DNS settings. If you host your website with the same company you bought your Domain Name from, then you may not need to do this as it will probably be pointing at the hosting companies DNS.
However, if you are buying your Domain Name from GoDaddy and your web hosting from Blue Host then you will need to visit the Manage Domains section of your GoDaddy account. You will then need to get the names of the Blue Host DNS (there will probably be about 3). Then back to GoDaddy and change the DNS from the GoDaddy settings to the Blue Host settings.
Then all you need to do is wait. It can take up to 2 days for the settings to reach all of the Domain Name Servers throughout the internet. In my experience I have seen a new domain bought and then functional in 20 minutes and other times it has taken 24 hours.
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