Web hosting is a place where you can store your web page so that your website can be shown on the internet. Signing up a web hosting plan shouldn’t be a complicated task for anyone else, but I realize that there are actually many people still don’t know how to sign up a web hosting plan. It doesn’t mean that they’re foolish, perhaps they just need someone to guide them how to get started – everything else.
Make money online can make you excited, when the money flash on your mind and you just want to start making money online, but when you’re required to invest money to sign up web hosting, you’ll think twice and slow down the process. Signing up a web hosting plan is not a complicated task as almost all the sign up forms in the web hosting website has been systematized, you just need to follow the step and everything can be going fairly smooth.
I’ve been using Hostgator for months, I love the performance and their technical support, very efficiency though. Besides of these, the uptime is almost 100% so my blog is 24×7 up for the readers from all around the world. Since I’m using Hostgator, so I’ll show you step by step how to sign up Hostgator web hosting plan.
Go to Hostgator website and get started.
Step-By-Step How To Sign Up Web Hosting Plan
1) Choose A Web Hosting Plan
There is 3 web hosting plans available on Hostgator – Hatchling Plan, Baby Plan and Business Plan. If you tend to make money online, a single blog is not enough and it won’t make you rich, so pick Baby Plan would be good as it supports unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited addon domain, that means you can build unlimited blog and host them in the web hosting.
So you’ve decided to sign up Baby Plan, now choose the subsription – 1 year, 2 years, 3 years or pay monthly. As shown in the screenshot, the longer period you subscribe, the cheaper the cost. I take 2 years, and click Order Now!
2) Choosing A Domain Name
If you’re new to blogging, I believe that you wouldn’t have any domain name, so pick a new one. Choose a name that is easy to remember, it’s better if the domain name represents the niche that you’re going to take. I simply register my name as an example.
Click next to check whether the domain is available.
If your preferable domain is not available, then go back and choose a new one. If your preferable domain is available, click “Continue”. Then you’ll be led to a page that displays all your order details, confirm your details, fill in the coupon code to get a discount if any, click “Calculate Totals”.
Again, it shows your order details as well as the cost involved. Checkbox the “I am a new customer” and click “Continue”.
3) Fill Up Customer’s Details Form and Make Payment
So now you need to fill up the form, and choose the payment method, either Credit Card or Paypal. After filling the form, click “Verify My Order”. Alright, you’re going to complete the registration procedure, check and ensure all the details are correct, then click “Process My Order”.
Then you’ll need to make payment via credit card or paypal. After payment made, you’ll receive an email from Hostgator titled “HostGator : Invoice Payment”. After they process your registration, you’ll then receive an email titled “Your HostGator Account Information”, following the steps which stated in the email and you’re ready to start your first blog!
Sign Up Hostgator And Get Discount 20% Now!
Hostgator has a winter special discount in 20% for your initial order during December 2009, click the banner below and use the coupon code “SNOWMAN” to sign up your web hosting plan.
The discount will be expired at 1st Jan 2010, so don’t miss it and action now!
Conclusion
This tutorial is dedicated for newbie or beginner who want to start up their blogging journey and look for reliable web hosting plan. If you’re looking for a reliable web hosting and you want your blog to be up for 24×7, Hostgator would be your choice. The cost is affordable, especially when it comes with 20% discount, it’s definitely the best deal!
SIGN UP HOSTGATOR AND GET 20% DISCOUNT
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Hostgator deserves for it. We can refer hostgator confidently. I am also running my several blogs in single cpanel at hostgator. Never met any problem. Great support..:)
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If the hosting site makes it hard to sign up, I am going to walk. Well, not, really. I’d just be careful when it’s time to add my credit card details.
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@IGQ,
Any place where requires credit card details, yes we have to beware and not to disclose our credit card details to third party. So I prefer to pay things online by using paypal.
Great guide for newbies.
I don’t see where anyone will go wrong.
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@David,
Thanks David. I hope newbie would find it useful.
Now I am using Baitulbytes, what do you think about the Hostgator ?
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@Kevin,
Hostgator is a wonderful web hosting, I’ve been using for months, no problem and their support is great too! Let me know if you like to switch too, I would reward you $15 if you sign up under my affiliate link.
Thats cool!! I am looking for new host too. BTW, may I know how did you make the vote option at the top left of the story.
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@Senthil,
I would recommend you to use Hostgator as this is a reliable web hosting and uptime almost 100%! If you don’t mind, please sign up under my affiliate link, you will get 20% discount from Hostgator and I’ll reward you another $15. Simply shoot me an email and we can go from there.
Regarding the vote option, do you have the Thesis Openhook plugin installed for your thesis theme?
I am in hosgator for one weeks now. Their services are awesome till today.
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@Dana,
Great to know that you’re with Hostgator too. I’ve been using them for months, no problem so far.
i try many webhostin. Most of them good. Only some of them have problem. Its normal even some webhosting can go up and down..
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Simple and easy to follow Lee. It’s going to be useful for newbies
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@steppinout,
I believe that newbie would find it useful as they don’t know how to get started when it comes to doing investment.
Thank you for this nice tutorial Lee, After all this is one nice review on hostgator.
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@Chandan,
You’re welcome Chandan, I hope newbie would find this tutorial useful. No doubt, Hostgator is a wonderful web hosting, I would recommend to anyone who wants to look for reliable web hosting.
I’m using sealserver. Last week I took a look at hostgator and have been thinking to switch to hostgator soon since I have several blogs in separate control panel. I want them to be in one control panel only..
@Fazreen,
Great choice! I would really appreciate if you could sign up under my affiliate link Fazreen, you will get 20% discount from Hostgator and I’ll also reward you with $15 cash as a discount from me too. Simply shoot me an email and we can go from there?
I am already in some other hosting which I wish to switch now. Can u pls guide me how to transfer my domain to Hostgator?
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My site is also hosted at Hostgator and I find their rates reasonable. You can save a lot if you will sign up for longer terms say for example a year or two.
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@Rian,
Yea especially with the 20% on initial order, I signed up for 2 years and it saved me a lot. I have no problem using Hostgator so far, so I strongly recommend Hostgator to all my friends.
Good choice, I’ve been using HG for years and highly recommend them. I picked the reseller plan for different reasons.
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@Dennis,
Cool! So did you sell any spaces with the reseller plan Dennis?
Hi Lee. I’ve heard that HostGator is good before. Heard again in your post here. I guess I’ll take a look on their features then. Cheers.
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@Isaac,
Yea I’ve been using Hostgator for months and no doubt they provide good support and excellent performance for my blog. If you’re going to switch your current hosting to Hostgator, give me a shout and I’ll see what we can do for that. You’ll probably get a 20% discount from Hostgator and additional $15 discount from me.
Thanks Lee. That is a very nice offer. I’ll remember that
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Good basic tutorial. This really makes it simple for anyone looking to sign up for website hosting. I have used Host Gator for various websites and I agree that they are one of the best. They provide great quality service at a low price.
currently i am using ix but this offer some good stuff then others
Great Guide for newbies and others a like.
I have been using host gator for over a year now and love it. Thanks for this post.
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How did Hostgator to attract you to sign up it ? cheap ?
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@Kevin Chong,
Price is not what I concern, performance and support is. Hostgator is reliable and they have almost 100% uptime, that is what I want.
Before starting to choose the web hosting, the most important decision is the domain name. This is an irreversible step. You can choose or change hosting plan at any point of time
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I tweeted this post, find it useful for me and for my followers. Thanks Lee!
Ron
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Lee,
What about buying the domain name at Netfirms and then host the website at HostGator? Hostgator charges $12 (after 20% discount) plus $10 for domain privacy, while Netfirms only charges $7.99 with domain privacy included. Will it be very troublesome to do it separately?
Thank you in advance.
Herman
@herman,
Sure why not? You can even buy it at Godaddy and change the nameserver to Hostgator. I would really appreciate if you could sign up under my affiliate link, I could help you out with the nameserver and show you step-by-step. Nope, it’s just an easy job. Just give me a nudge and I’ll help you out.
Lee,
I appreciate your quick reply which is impressive. As a layman, I have a stupid question: say, I have created a blog named ABC.com and want to make money by advertising. How do I receive payment from advertisers like Google Ads when my real name is Herman instead of ABC.com? When I sign up with the advertisers, can I make it clear that they should pay to Herman even though the blog is named ABC.com? Do they send cheques or do they pay by bank transfers like paypal? Will paypal allow me to open an account called ABC.com but it is just a blog, not a registered company?
@herman,
No worries Herman, that’s not a stupid question and I asked the same question when I first started online.
Google Adsense pays by checks, they currently don’t pay via paypal. When you register, you’re required to fill in the name that they’re going to send the checks to, so fill in your real name instead of blog URL. Payee name and blog URL will be in separate section, so no conflict from there.
Paypal allows you to open account with only email address, example leekahoong@hotmail.com, myblog2day@gmail.com and etc. It doesn’t need to be a registered company, anyone can sign up.
I hope I answer your questions, let me know if you have further more question.
Nice tutorial. I’ve done various that look this one @ my blog. Let’s all keep promoting Hostgator cos they truly ROCK!