Many of you might be wondering, “Can i start a website without investing any money?” The answer is yes, you can! i try that myself before. So here is another question, “Can i start a website without investing any effort and money? I can say, either you invest money or you invest effort You cannot start a website without investing any effort and money. So back to the main topic of this post, how do i start a website without investing any money? That is by investing efforts. So what do you need in order to start a website? You need to have:
- Domain Name
- Web Hosting
Total cost will be around 20 USD for (Domain name -> 1 Year Registration) + (Web Hosting -> 1 Year) You can research for cheaper ones. For me, i started by posting in Namepros.com (That is a webmaster forum why u earn credits that can be exchanged for real cash) Also, there are also alot of other ways where you can earn the start up cost, you can
- write articles and sell them
- design websites
- design logo
- help to offer services to submit links to link directories
- forum posting etc etc
- there are many many others ways, this is just to give a brief idea of what you can do to earn start up cost for your first website if you do not wish to invest any money.
So now i assume you have worked hard and you had earned the at least 20 dollars in your paypal. The next step that you should do, is to go to www.godadddy.com to register your own domain name. ( you can choose other domain registrars if you want) That will probably cost around $7.17, if you apply the coupon (hash3) ; i am not sure whether this coupon still works, but i bought one domain at $7.17 using this coupon for my first niche site just a few days back. Hurry before it expires!!!! 
Okay, after buying the domain, you have to find a web hosting company, there are tons of web hosting companies out that and prices are competitive, you can go research yourself. For me, currently i am using bluehost.com. I find their support to be good, fast and reliable, so if you asked me, i would recommend them.
After your web hosting account has been set up, i am sure under the account details, you will be given the nameservers. E.g. something like NS1.bluehost.com, NS2.bluehost.com. So now, if you registered your domain with godaddy, you just have to log in to your account and point the nameservers to your web host. Then, wait for some time for the DNS to propagate, and you can now upload files to your web host. Simple Right?
For the ftp program, i would recommend using Filezilla. You can download it at www.filezilla.com. After you installed filezilla, just key in your details such as the domain name, username, password and port number, for ftp, its either port 20 or 21 (all this will be given when you purchased a web hosting package). I will not explain on how to use filezilla as its real easy, just drag and drop.
Okay, thats all! You just need to create your website and upload all the files ! Always note that, its easy to create and upload a website, but its hard to maintain it, The next step, which i won’t probably be covering in this post, is to market or seo your website. And, i think here is where the hard part begins.
As for $500 challenge, i think i am seriously facing a real problem. Yesterday, when i went back to work, i was SO DAMN tired that i slept all the way till this morning. That means.. LOL, i have not start creating my niche site. Seriously, I think i needed to change my plan. That is to create and sell those niche sites only at weekends, as i was beat tired on weekdays after work. So heres my plan, i am left with 3 weekends, which mean 6 days. So 450/6 = 75 dollars for each day.
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January 16th, 2008 |
