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Got Domain? Now Get Hosting?

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Okay, so you’ve gotten the domain name you wanted from GoDaddy.com and you are ready to jump right in and get a site set up. Your next step then is finding a good hosting service. I recommend PowWeb.com. GoDaddy.com offers several different levels of hosting as well, but your best bet to get the most bang for your buck would be PowWeb.com.

PowWeb has a single plan which is loaded with all the services you would need by without having to upgrade your service plan to get them. Some of the finer points of hosting with PowWeb.com are:

300 GB Storage
3000 GB Transfer/month
Free Domain Name [for the first year but we recommend GoDaddy.com instead]
Unlimited Mailboxes [you can give all your friends and family email addresses which they can check online or via POP]
24/7 Tech Support
Web based file manager [great if you don’t want to use FTP]
Unix Platform
PHP and MySQL [with 75 databases!]
SSL Secure Site for e-commerce [shared certificate] – Start your online store with your choice of free shopping carts installed with the click of a mouse.
Loads of free, easy to install programs like forums, content management for complete sites, galleries, shopping carts and lots more.

And you cannot beat their price for all these great services. Only $7.77 a month and if you check their site regularly they run specials all the time get your first year for as low as $5.77/month.

Take the First Step To Starting a Website by Getting a Domain Name

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Wanna start a website? First, you’ll need a domain. Yeah, some hosting companies do offer a one year free domain with hosting like PowWeb.com [my choice for hosting], but you don’t always have the best control over the domains.

Choose the domain name that is right for you and then come up with a few variations of that domain. Reason for the variations is because your first choice is not always available. You can check below to see if your domain is available or not.

If the domain you want is available now you need to choose a registrar. I recommend GoDaddy.com. They offer the most flexible services for the best prices. Even if you are not ready to get your website hosted [they do that too], you can park the domain or use it for email only until ready to build that site.

Even if you are just thinking about getting a site sometime in the future and have an idea of what you want the domain to be, I would suggest that you grab your domain now. The way domains are grabbed up by the time your think to act someone else already has the one you want. Head to GoDaddy.com for your domain name today.