Get a .com and use if you don’t have the money

akagson:
Thanks, Ben Joe. I will like the idea you are passing across. The Smartweb, the N2500 is it for both the hosting and domain name? Are they reliable enough (because it seems like a Naija company)?
Also, the NameCheap, do they provide me with hosting too?

P.S.- You made use of "dot com" in place of ".com". Does Nairaland penalize for posting direct links? *just curious*

If you know you like yourself and you want to succeed in whatever reason you are starting a website...DON'T TRY SMARTWEB OR ELSE YOU WILL REGRET YOUR LIFE!!

Ben1975:
Hi akagson

If you want to make money from your blog don't go for free or subdomains, it will make your site seem cheap and people will not take you too seriously.

There are 2 domain providers I can offer you that are not monthly payments but yearly payments just save up the little pannies then when you have enough patronize them

SmartWeb dot com dot ng N2500 yearly robust platform with WordPress and everything (recommended)

NameCheap dot com N1600 yearly. Even though this one is cheap I am fairly new to it so I cannot give you the low down sorry.

Then when you have your hosting. You can put affiliate products on it to generate an income. But you must take the project seriously to make that happen.

When you have set up your hosting contact me again and I will show you how you can make a living form you blog

Ben Ajose

Whats your number Anu?

Use wapka, you can design a wordpress look alike site with wapka if you arent lazy to code.

lawanson44:


If you know you like yourself and you want to succeed in whatever reason you are starting a website...DON'T TRY SMARTWEB OR ELSE YOU WILL REGRET YOUR LIFE!!

What's wrong with it?

Ben1975:

Hello Ben and All, I got a domain from godaddy and I wanted to use it on a blog (.) to change it to .com. Can you please help me with the processes? Also, would I be paying godaddy monthly fee henceforth? Thanks.

Worpress hosting and domain name registration is about $26 for a year on Godaddy.com

akagson:
I want to start a WordPress blog. Considering that I'm not assured that I'll be having the money to pay for domain name and hosting for every month, what should I do. Any cheap alternative?

Hmm... Some of hosting provider such as hostforlife.eu offer FREE domain if you register their hosting plan. I believe that other provider also can give you free domain name. Just test to find it or you may post your question to webhostingtalk.

TeOwl:
Worpress hosting and domain name registration is about $26 on Godaddy.com

Yes, that's right, Godaddy also offer cheap hosting and domain registration. They are cheap but for me their services up and down like rollercoaster.

akagson:
I want to start a WordPress blog. Considering that I'm not assured that I'll be having the money to pay for domain name and hosting for every month, what should I do. Any cheap alternative?

If you have not yet gotten an offer, I will register any Domain name of your choice and Host it for you. I will also design the website for you at no cost.

Yes all for free.

You can head over to http://zexmax.com/get-a-website-2/ and tell me what you want.

Cheers!

following

akagson:
I want to start a WordPress blog. Considering that I'm not assured that I'll be having the money to pay for domain name and hosting for every month, what should I do. Any cheap alternative?

A domain name is cheap na.. you can get for less than $3 for a year.

akagson:
I want to start a WordPress blog. Considering that I'm not assured that I'll be having the money to pay for domain name and hosting for every month, what should I do. Any cheap alternative?

My friend if you want to really make it with blogging, forget all this wapka nonsense.

They say, anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Blogging is not easy at all especially in Nigeria. If you don't have money for domain and hosting, maybe you shouldn't start yet.

WordPress comes with uncountable benefits, ease, options, seo optimization and so on, that will hugely benefit your blog. You should Google benefits of WordPress. The beauty of WordPress is once you have domain and hosting, everyother should be easy for you. Free themes, plug-ins, in fact you can build an e-commerce store with WordPress, accept payments at no cost.

You can use Google blogger for the main time.

The wapka.com site itself is appalling to behold for any sensible Web designer.

Anyway a word is enough for the wise.

akagson:
I want to start a WordPress blog. Considering that I'm not assured that I'll be having the money to pay for domain name and hosting for every month, what should I do. Any cheap alternative?

If you are serious about the venture and are ready to work to promote your site very well, I will offer you a free domain registration and hosting for one year. We will also help you with the SEO.
Send me a mail at sales@jamoohost.com
You can also visit www.jamoohost.com to look around.

akagson:
I want to start a WordPress blog. Considering that I'm not assured that I'll be having the money to pay for domain name and hosting for every month, what should I do. Any cheap alternative?

i can help you with blogger design and .com domain for just #1500..
Note: you will pay after you are okay with the service i render.

So easy,go to lagos by nite bus(500naira) take bike to Tinubu or Kashamu house,explain to them,ur problems ar solvd,they need somebody to take something to an agent in INDONESIA,but beware of INDONESIA they hate drug

Ben1975 does Smartwebng N2500 plan support ruby on rails or is it only for VPS ?

Will give you free Hosting and domain if you want.
send an email to dara360 at gmail.com - Put Free Hosting as Subject.

lawanson44:


If you know you like yourself and you want to succeed in whatever reason you are starting a website...DON'T TRY SMARTWEB OR ELSE YOU WILL REGRET YOUR LIFE!!

I should not try smartweb? Anything with them?

Goodnuel:
A domain name is cheap na.. you can get for less than $3 for a year.

From where pls?

@op always check www.havilahhost.com free .com domain and hosting are giving out quarterly inasmuch as you are not using the hosting for scam purpose

akagson:
From where pls?

godaddy. You use a promo code to slash the price from $10 to less than $3.

Here is how to get close to free domain name for 0.99 cents, first make sure you have a good payment method like paypal or uba africard. even there is no money in your account, you can register lots of doman names and pay later...just that you may be charged a 'late fee' if you dont pay in three months time. As a blogger, l'll advice you to get yourself a UBA AFRICARD (1500 naira) and keep for your continual use. But if the online merchants accepts the card you are currently using,fine.

(NOTE) The following are affiliate codes...clicking them does not take anything from you...just that l may get some few coins if you make purchases

register your 'free' domains here http://www.1and1.com/?ac=OM.US.US469K02463T2103a


Now the next link is for absolute free hosting. The don't bug you with adverts, plus you get 2gb FREE DISK SPACE and FREE 100GB BANDWIDTH! There are some free hosting sites l tried but they only support static sites--like front/home page only! l successfully installed AND UPDATED WORDPRESS...plus the plugins. This is the tricky part of FREE HOSTING, they allow you install but you can't literally update nothing...this is cos they allow just over 400 hundred connections to their servers at a time...imagine the millions of users trying to update at the same time...long story short here is your free host

PS: this free host allows maximum of two accounts (domains) only IF YOU WANT FREE hosting. Paid offers allows unlimited domains.

http://api.hostinger.co.uk/redir/8690014%22

AmakaDNBStories:
Visit DNB Stories
is cool

must you show your S.T.U.PID.ITY,someone is asking for advice and you are promoting your rubbish,instead of these why dont you just keep calm and read comments,while thinking of something useful to contribute.

FINgames:
must you show your S.T.U.PID.ITY,someone is asking for advice and you are promoting your rubbish,instead of these why dont you just keep calm and read comments,while thinking of something useful to contribute.

Chai! Oboy, you mean o! If you sound this harsh online, only God knows how meeting you in person will be. The OP asked for something about blogging, I told him to visit a blog he might get something from. The owner of DNB Stories helps people set up blogs of their own free of charge, so where did I go wrong?

akagson:
I should not try smartweb? Anything with them?

If you host your website with smartweb, your website will experience downtime almost everyday. This means your site will be offline most of the time esp in the evening. It seems the dumbos behind that smartweb turn off the servers before closing for the day. You wouldn't want that to happen to your website would you?

lawanson44:


If you host your website with smartweb, your website will experience downtime almost everyday. This means your site will be offline most of the time esp in the evening. It seems the dumbos behind that smartweb turn off the servers before closing for the day. You wouldn't want that to happen to your website would you?

Of course, I wouldn't. But when last did you use their service? Coz some other persons are telling me opposite of what you are saying.