Class 1- Registering Domain and Hosting

Resources:

Domain registrars

GoDaddy – http://godaddy.com
Namecheap – http://namecheap.com

Hosting Providers:

Hostgator – http://www.hostgator.com
Big Rock – www.bigrock.in/web-hosting
Host it Smart – https://www.hostitsmart.com/linux-web-hosting

Transcript:

Welcome to Class 1 of Lets Talk IM.

Lets talk IM is an initiative to teach internet marketing and search engine optimization to complete beginners.

Today, we’ll be studying up the first part of setting up a website- registering the domain, registering for hosting, and pointing the DNS. Unlike most people tend to think, setting up a website is very, very easy.

I will walk you through each of the steps.

Step 1. Registering the domain.

Registering the domain is imply registering the name of your website, for example- www.example.com. This is done through domain registration companies like GoDaddy or Namecheap.

Search for say, example.com, click search.

Obviously, example.com is not available. Try out another domain, say- letstalkim.com, and click search

It is available. So we goo ahead and add it to our cart. I am going to go ahead and buy it, and they’re asking me to create an account. After creating an account, they ask us for the account contact information that includes, first and last names, contact information and address.

Next we have to enter the Whois contact information, which is nothing but the data of who is registering the domain.

After that, we can go ahead and buy the domain using our chosen payment method- you can pay via credit or debit card, or PayPal.

The next step in setting up our website is registering for hosting. Hosting is nothing but the server space where all the data of your website is stored. You can get a hosting account at hosting companies like HostGator, which is a reputed company, or other ones like BigRock, or cheap ones like Hostitsmart.

I go ahead and buy hosting from Hostitsmart with a per year billing cycle. As we order, they ask us for the domain that we want to host on our hosting account. I go ahead and type in letstalkim.com

After creating an account on my hosting provider, they send us an email with the login details. We login and choose the plan we would like to pay for, and checkout and pay for hosting.

After that, they send us a couple emails. One of them is a mail with the subject – New account information.

In this we find the data we need, which is the login details and the Control Panel or cPanel URL. I go ahead and click the cPanel URL and login with the login details.

That’s it! You’ve setup hosting!

The next step is pointing the DNS. DNS is nothing but the pointer by which your domain register will access your hosting account. In the New Account Information email the hosting provider sends you, there will be data called Nameserver 1 and Nameserver 2. We copy this, login to our domain registrar account, and paste it in the Nameservers tab in the domain details of letstalkim.com inside Namecheap, and save changes. That’s it! You’re done.

You’ve just completed the initial steps of setting up a website.