Bul$hit ahead

i wouldn't advice ifastnet....Go with Stable host,Siteground or Inmotion...

pBuhari:


Namecheap is one of the best hosting company in the world.

And i know you knew it

You call namecheap reputable!!! hahahaaaaaaa.....
Dude av used that crap host and believe me....namecheap is good on domains and a piece os $hit with hosting......people who use namecheap for hosting are those getting to the online biz....established sites cannot stay on namecheaps environs

MakeADifference:
1. Mr "you want to be smart",

What Is The Difference Between A Hit, A Pageview, And A Visitor?

There are three types of Web site statistics, a hit, a page view or pages and a visitor or visits. Each of these measures something different: Hits – A single file request in the access log of a Web server ...
Read the remaining on Google.

You see visits means visitors, not hits. Learn that for next time.


2. Mr "There is no respectable reseller host in the US". Wow! The home of the Internet? Nigerians are soooooo amazing. Wow!

I see you own Google. But even Google will not say there is no respectable host in US. Because when they started, they started off someone's server center. Same for Dell. Same for Amazon. Same for a million others.

Let me help you to kick yourself more. I have a less than $2 cloud hosted VPS. And that even isn't the cheapest.

When I will get 80, 160GB RAM, read it again RAM servers rented at $80 a month and you are still here claiming $8 shared host in 2017?
Dedicated servers are now $5-7 for some low range but good servers.

If you are still a young person, you need to get back to where you can learn and go learn. If you are an adult, you need to be careful before you speak. Especially online. This isn't the place you can come to thinking you are hiking with local mumus.

I am taking time to respond to you because of people who read this public assertions you make - which are total errors. I don't want them to go around hammering errors as if they know anything.

For Real dude you wanna now turn this into an arguement?
Am surprised you think visits are visitors........this is soooo hillarious...am laughing righ now.

i repeat visits are not visitors!!

Google is your friend.....do the home work

Talking of vps and D.S?

Cheap vps/D.S is another crap....infact if you told me you were on Unmanaged vps like Digital ocean, i would side with you but $5 managed vps?....come onnnnn!!!

If vps is $5 why are people buying shared hosting for $15?....This hosts you are trynna justyfy can't even hit a 70% uptime...in your next reply...give me 5 reputable hosts offering vps for $5 and i'll check out reviews online to see if those hosts lack 80% of reviews that are negative...name them!!

and oh...lastly...i aint Nigerian...i wonder where google falls in this

MakeADifference:
If you don't know, ask and you will be told. If your knowledge of $2 hosts is crappy host, that's your own world.

As a bit of a lecture, I have a site of a $1 - yes $1/m host and it currently has 309,000+ posts and does 600+ hits daily. It is as fast as no-pause when you click. It has never been down once in years. It is a 36 months contract.

Next time say "to the best of my knowledge a $2 host is crappy".

By the way one of the most respected names in the North America hosting industry does a less than $2 RESELLER. Ask and you will be guided.

600 visits!....not even visitors...

ok you now wanna play smart just to promote yourself..Good for you!

If those $2 hosts were that powerful,mmmh....wouldn't everyone be running there...and oh one server host 50,000 websites?...Ding!

and my friend 600 visits can come drom 5,7,13 or even 17 visitors....and so a website with a whooping 2000 visitors a day will surely get suspended on that shared hosting...nothing best comes from $2 hosts unless your site gets 10 visitors a day and therefore no over usage of resources...
Theres no respected reseller in the u.s...none....
i have used multiple hosts and am always on the road experimenting and so you telling me a $2 host should be reliable,Boy i just wanna kick myself in the stomach so so hard.

pBuhari:



That is a BIG lie. With $100 i will gets everything for my clients and still design blog for them FREE

mmmhh!!!!

You have you own data center ehhh!!!

or you also use those crap resellers that bring your site down once visitors start coming in!!!

You get what you pay for....

MakeADifference:
Detailed and right.

1. There are good free themes (WordPress)
2. There are good budget hosts ($2 monthly especially if you can pay for 3 years upfront)

This answer by Jose123 is what you are asking for.

Ooh!! You mean those $2 crap hosts that your site needs to be down everynow abd then!!

I don’t know about you, but when someone tells me not to Google something , I immediately do it.
It’s a sickness i guess because I can’t think of a single instance where whatever I discovered online after being explicitly warned against looking for it didn’t live up to my awful expectations. In other words, when people tell you not to Google something, they usually have a damn good reason.

So why am I sharing this roundup post of things you shouldn’t google, knowing full well that some of you are going to Google them anyway, and I will be the one to blame for your subsequent discomfort?
Because I am a very, very, very bad person, that’s why.
Keep reading … IF YOU DARE.


That said, here are a few things you should never type into Google’s search box :



1.Clock spider




I can’t even type those words without my scalp crawling. Now, I have a THING about spiders so your creep factor on this one may vary, but if you’re a fellow arachnophobe, you definitely definitely don’t want to Google Image Search this term.



2.Bedbugs on Mattress



SWEET JESUS NO!



3.Wet koala




Eventually the Internet will inform you that the viral image of a “wet koala” is in fact fake. But not before you are SCARRED FOR LIFE by the damp, fanged, rage-filled creature someone dreamed up via Photoshop.



4.Tetris Fantic




What could ever be wrong about googling Tetris? I mean, it’s Tetris, right? Wrong again. There is a type of pornographic fan fiction inspired by Tetris. It sounds something like this:
“I unbuttoned the blue pixel I had on my lower half and instructed her on the ways of pre-intimacy. As her top pixel met my bottom pixel, I let out an ecstatic sigh. Such pleasure I had never experienced in my life …”



5.Yourself




Either you’ll find no proof whatsoever of your existence, or you’ll realize just how screwed-up your Internet legacy will be. There’s no happy outcome here.



6.Lazy sundays




There are no words to describe this… Unless you are into old men, who enjoy “scrubbing” each other in the shower, you should try to stay away.



7.Blue Waffle




There is honestly no need to elaborate. Whatever you do, just don’t.



8.Tub Girl




Do you know the games where you have to concentrate really, really, really hard, and then a scary face appears out of nowhere and you fall of your chair crying? Tub girl is in some ways similar to those faces, because it manages to scare the life out of innocent people. If you haven’t seen it yet, don’t look it up, because your reaction might be similar to this guy’s.


9.Fournier



10.Meatspin


11.Goatse (Espcially not this one)

12.Two Girls,One cup

13.Cake farts

14.Skeleton in the closet

15.Google pewdiepie

16.Lemon party



and that’s todays list don’t be too curious to know them.

Also Read on: 9 Google tricks You Need to try Out.

Emmysky:
i tried to apply for adhitz but was told Nigeria isn't supported. BTW, hows your earnings?

Not that good as native ads but on a good day i can make $3-$5

adhitz and amazon native ads

hayPizzle:
yea bro... I also observed this,,,buh am limiting it to Nigerians alone..... My realest problem is Nairaland!!!! Abi make I kuku drop the idea? And also I think nairaland is quite boring these days,,,,or what do u tink?

yeap..i would also lean towards quora over nairaland....i can take hours on quora but not so much time on nairaland....because of cheap spam here.
check on everything lacking here and and don't get afraid to test out new ideas on the site.

hayPizzle:
Hy nairalanders.


Am thinking of creating a website like quora where people will ask questions and answers will be provided by other users,but am limiting to Nigerians alone



...plz what do u think? Does it worth it? Can it survive ,plz I need ur suggestions.

The idea is good but making it is a nightmare.

your enemies not only include nairaland but also facebook,reddit and all the major forums you can think of.
its not a pretty business....its really really tough.,

LegolasGatsby:


Oh my God how please tell me more i'ont know much about this things

As per Google AdSense policies, you can use AdSense Ads on MP3 downlaod sites, provided you have the necessary legal rights and copyrights for the files hosted/distributed by you. But think again - do you really have all the rights? Simply taking MP3 files from the web and hosting it on your site will not make you the legal owner of such content.

Also, even if you do not host the files, just linking to illegal downloads itself is promoting piracy and violation of copyrights in many countries. Google AdSense terms and conditions will not allow you to use AdSense on sites that link to illegal music, video, MP3 downloads.

Unless you represent a big channel that has the (expensive) legal rights of the downloadable music files, you may end up with trouble with AdSense. It is better to keep AdSense and MP3 downloads away from each other to keep your account safe and in good standing.
But if you have all legal copyrights and you are absolutely sure about it, go ahead with it. AdSense on MP3 downloads could give you good money.

Lawalemi:


Oh. Thanks so much. The blog is on Facebook

since the blog is on facebook,i think it will be quite hard to drive traffic organically if its not by the use of social platforms.

You may wanna try sharing it among different groups,twitter,reddit,digg,stimbleupon etc etc.

Hosting your blog on facebook is really not a good idea.....facebook owns everything you write and theres absolutely no way to measure your progress .
Its no different from updating post status that gets burried under other billions and billions of other statuses.

Lawalemi:
Please advise how I can get traffic to my new blog on Facebook.

Thanks

Your question is not very clear.

is the blog on facebook?

or do you want to drive traffic from facebook to your blog hosted somewhere else?

pxjosh:
I plan to start a blog, so I bought a dot com domain. The plan I had in mine was to use the domain name on the blogger platform.

Now someone told me WordPress is way faster than blogger and I should host my site on the WordPress platform.

Now I don't know if I should start with blogger or just register for free host and then install WordPress on the free host. Experts please help me out on this.

I would say go with a free reputable host.

Blogger is good but full of limitations unless you know how to dig in to code.

Use wordpress and learn with that free host until the time you can be comfortable paying for your own hosting.

Hosting-$8 Per Month($96 Per year)
Domain-$0.99 First year ($15 During Renewal)
Premium theme-($19 Varies)
Totalling Roughly To:- $120 First year

AfterEarth:
First : Follow the person.
Then send your desired message to him/her.

PS: When you follow the person and wants to send a message, the box will be clickable and you can edit.

Bye- bye

lol am just loving your signature....

you get what you pay for and cheap is always expensive.

avonoshi:
the site has a good and seo friendly theme with nice alexa stats, marketing advice would be much appreciated

I would not really measure alexa rank as when looking at how good or bad a blog is doing.
Use tools like semrush,Ahrefs and Majestic.


Check your Moz Rank,PA,DA and most importantly how many relevant & high quality links are pointing to your site.
..and get rid of the low quality ones.


With these tools,you can see what keywords you rank for in search engines and in which position,who is your competitor and how are they able to beat you.
You will get a scope of how your site is fairing in real time and not estimations.

Coming back to marketing,every niche has its own best strategies.
i would advice carrying out some research and see what exactly your audience wants and spy on your competitors to see how they are getting their audience and read marketing tips online before jumping in the ocean.'
With these strategies,you will be able to start seeing results but if you do it wrongly,its no difference as throwing money in the air and watching it disappear....don't go in blindly learn a thing or two about the audience you want to reach.

phililp:


aiit.. but whats ur opinion on nigerian based. can i trust'em?

one thing that is important before picking a host is your projection of how big it will be in a month or two.
Then after that you start evaluating wether it needs more bandwidth,Ram,entry processes,Cpu or any other resources.
If the site is projected to be small within a year then trying hostgator would not hurt because you pay monthly and can walk away anytime you get disatisfied.
If the site will grow rapidly,you need a host that can change according to your needs without being suspended for using all the resources frequently.

phililp:

so what do u recommend..

any non EIG hosting...siteground,stablehost etc etc

with 100k i would advice you market the blog,purchase a good premium theme and ensure your seo is on point.
If Seo is good people will find you and not the other way round.

My friend this is a pure white lie..
No one can become a top notch developer in three months....NOOO ONE.

people who've been in the industry for years are nothing near to top notch and you wanna tell me a 10 week script kiddie is a top notch developer!!!?

CUT IT OFF MEN!!

Avoid godaddy like a plague and run away from hostgator like you would when the police are after you.

Godaddy hosting is a joke and hostgator is a nightmare.
Hostgator used to be good at one time but after EIG purchasing them,they are terribble like corruption in africa.
Those reviews you see online people recommending hostgator,Bluehost,Dreamhost etc are not legit...those are God damn affiliates just after your money....Ruuuun my friend ruuun from those two hosts!!!

most entertainment bloggers are fake with click bait titles such as oh who has died...oh....No. 6 will surprise you and i just don't click on anything with fishy titles.
Not all bloggers are like that but lets face it most of them are.

Software202:
As of 2016: Below are the top 50 most visited websites in Nigeria according to Alexa

[Source from: http://9jaspot.com/1004/top-50-most-visited-websites-in-nigeria]



1. Nairaland.com

2.Jumia .com . ng

3.Eskimi . com

4.Konga . com

5.Lindaikeji.com

6.Gtbank . com

7.Bet9ja . com

8.Naij . com

9.Punchng.com

10.Vanguardngr . com

11.Naijaloaded . com . ng

12.Jiji . ng

13.Nairabet . com

14.Interswitchng . com

15.Tooxclusive . com

16.Pulse . ng

17.Dailypost . ng

18.Spectranet . com . ng

19.Bellanaija.com

20.Notjustok . com

21.Betradar.com

22.Dealdey.com

23.Firs.gov.ng

24. Olx . com . ng

25.Informationng.com

26.Premiumtimesng.com

27.Thenationonlineng.net

28.Guardian.ng

29. Merrybet . com

30. Hotnigerianjobs . com

31.Wakanow.com

32.Surebet247.com

33.SaharaReporters.com

34.Tori.ng

35.Theinfong

36.Swiftng.com

37.Vconnect.com

38.Zenithbank.com

39. Jobberman . com

40.Unilag.edu.ng

41.Smile.com.ng

42.Flashscore.com

43.Abokifx

44.Thisdaylive.com

45.Myjobmag.com

46. Stelladimokokorkus.com

47. Thecable.ng

48. 360nobs . com

49.Whogohost.com

50.Stanbicibtcbank.com

[Source from: http://9jaspot.com/1004/top-50-most-visited-websites-in-nigeria]

No my Friend.

Nairaland can't be on top of google,on top of facebook and on top of Wikipedia..that can never happen.

Drop your blog links and lets see whose blog is crafted and designed better than whose.

#Mine: Smatt Geeks Media

ukche:
Please house, is it possible to change the hosting for an existing CMS website, and how?

i am having problem to log into the cpanel of my website for several weeks now being hosted by Globalhosting247.
It seems they could not correct the problem after several complaints and tickettttsss.

Please house, is it possible to change the hosting for an existing CMS website, and how?

Yes its possible.
cpanel login problem has nothing to do with wp

Godadaddy for domain namme at $0.99 first year and Stable host/Siteground/Digital ocean for your hosting.