All About Hosting

So what is hosting, what does it involve and why do you need it?

Imagine you wanted to open a store selling some kind of product, let’s say toothbrushes.

• First thing you need is a business plan.
• Then you need a name for your business.
• Next, you need to find somewhere to locate your store.
• When you’ve found the perfect location, you need to rent a building
• The building needs to be decorated to your taste
• Then you put your sign on the front and open for business
• To get customers coming through the door, you need to advertise.
• Finally, you need to keep everything fresh. New products, new displays, and constant restocking.

Your blog may not be set up to sell anything but having a blog follows these same basic rules:

1. Have a plan. Why are you blogging, what will you blog about, how often will you blog?
2. Think up a name for your blog that fits with what you will be blogging about. This will then be the Domain Name you want to purchase.
3. Next, you need to find somewhere to locate your blog. That’s the Web Host.
4. You rent some web space from your chosen host with what’s called a Hosting Plan.
5. Once you’ve rented the space, you need to decide what blogging software to use. We recommend WordPress.
6. You install your blogging software into your web space (or we can do it for you) and then you have to decorate it. If you’re not comfortable doing the decoration yourself, you can get a web designer to do it for you.
7. Once the design is all done, you need to start blogging. Writing new posts on a regular basis is important!
8. You can advertise your blog in a whole host of ways. Some of the most popular are: by leaving comments on other people’s blogs, joining twitter and facebook and telling all your friends about it.
9. Keep writing new posts to keep your blog fresh and interesting – and tinker with the design every so often to give it a fresh feel.

What we here at NewBlogHosting.com do is provide the Domain Name registration and web space you need to get your blog started.

Buying hosting is just like renting a store-front.

The registration of your domain name and the hosting plan are both renewable every year. We’ll let you know before your 12 months is up so you can decide whether you want to renew. At any time you can transfer your hosting and the management of your domain name registration to another company. It’s your name and your blog, you’re free to do what you like with it!