How to find hosting for your website

In the previous blog post, we spoke about choosing a domain name for your website.

The next step is to find where to host your website.

What does that mean, hosting?

Computer servers to host websites — Your website could be stored in one of those servers

Websites are made up of text, images, and computer code (HTML, CSS, etc.) . All that information has to be stored in a place where it can be accessible to the people who might want to see your website.

Imagine the images and text document stored in your computer, or in your phone. In this case, your computer or phone is acting as a server and host of your information, but other people don’t have access to it.

When you store your website with a hosting company, other people can just dial up their servers and have access to the information of your website.

When you pay for the service of hosting, you are paying for the storage space in a server that’s accessible to millions of people, ideally 24/7/365.

Most hosting companies offer hosting services specific for WordPress. What that means is that once you chose a hosting package, you will click one button “install WordPress,” and WordPress with automatically be installed in their servers.

After the installation process which only takes a few minutes, then you can start modifying WordPress to you liking.

Hosting is very affordable. Most hosting companies offer starter’s plan that cost between $5 to $10 per month. Prices may increase depending on how much storage capacity you need and how much traffic will be visiting your website. Most hosting companies are very good at their crafts and their prices are very competitive.

I have an affiliate relationship with SiteGround, one of the many hosting companies out there. I think their package is extremely well priced for a budget conscious business owner. If you get SiteGround, I will get a small commission.