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How to Buy a Good Domain Name and Enjoy Greater Savings

reach2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 13:21:12 +0000

Quick Summary

Some good domain names are available for sale at highway robbery prices! Unless you are feeling rich, we would suggest it is better to think of another good domain name, or find some linguistic workarounds.

To build a website, the first thing you need to do is to buy a good domain name.

This may sound easy, but we know it can be frustrating and confusing with so many options and add-ons which you don’t know if you really need.

That’s why we have put together this simple guide to help you buy a good domain name and enjoy greater savings.

Just follow this guide, and you will be able to buy a good domain name at minimal costs from GoDaddy in 7 easy steps.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Step 5 and Step 6 saves you the money. Must read and follow!

Now, just click on the links below or simply scroll down for detailed picture guidance.

Here we go!

STEP 1: Make sure your domain name is available
STEP 2: Get a reasonable price at GoDaddy
STEP 3: Add your domain name to the Cart
STEP 4: Click “Continue to Cart”
STEP 5: Make money-saving selections at your cart
STEP 6: Select domain name duration (to own) and create an account
STEP 7: Select country/region and make payment

Finally, remember to check your email for your order confirmation!

NEXT STEP: Buy a Web Hosting and Start Building Your Website

Detailed Steps

STEP 1: Make sure your domain name is good and available at a reasonable price

Go to Instant Domain Search.

Once there, type in your domain name to check its availability.

Now, the most important thing to do before the rest of the steps, is to take your time to decide on a good and affordable domain name.

Trust us, it is not going to be easy. Why?

Because most likely you will find that the name you want is already taken by someone else.

Even if it is still available, it is not uncommon to find it for sale at highway robbery prices!

Unless you are feeling rich, we would suggest it is better to think of another equally good domain name, or squeeze your creative juice to find some linguistic workarounds.

STEP 2: Get a reasonable price at GoDaddy

Once you have decided on a GOOD, AVAILABLE and REASONABLY PRICED domain name, go to GoDaddy.

Here, enter your domain name to get a buying price.

STEP 3: Add your domain name to the Cart

STEP 4: Click "Continue to Cart"

You should see “1 domain selected” under the “Continue to Cart” button.

If not, you can restart from Step 2.

STEP 5: Make money-saving selections and click “Continue to Cart"

The following selections are recommended based on the assumption that you are building your WordPress website entirely on your own, or with the help of Reachafar.

In this case, you don’t need the add-ons from GoDaddy. The reasons are simple:

Firstly, WordPress has an extensive collection of templates which easily allows us to start your website with more than just a “Coming soon” page.

Secondly, we strongly recommend you to buy your web hosting from SiteGround.

To understand why we recommend SiteGround, you can read more at “The Best Web Hosting For Website Starters.”

Lastly, to create an email address that matches your domain, you need not do it with GoDaddy. Why?

That’s because there are so many better options out there!

For instance, Microsoft 365 Business Basic at USD$5 user/month and Google’s G Suite at USD$6 user/month.

Note: At this point of writing, Microsoft 365 is offering a 6 months FREE trial for Microsoft 365 Business Basic subscribers. That’s a steal! So check it out HERE.

STEP 6: Select domain name duration (to own) and create an account with GoDaddy

Select how many years you would like to own the domain.

For your convenience, we recommend selecting at least 2 years, so you don’t have to bother about renewing too soon.

After that, enter your details to create an account with GoDaddy.

STEP 7: Select country/region and payment method to complete domain purchase

Select your country/region and payment method.

Subsequently, follow the on-screen instructions to complete domain name purchase.

YAY!
You have successfully purchased your domain name.
Remember to check your email for your order confirmation!

Next Step

Buy a great Web Hosting to Start Building Your Website

After buying a good domain name, your next step will be to buy a great web hosting with SiteGround.

To do so, follow our guide “How to Buy Web Hosting at SiteGround in 4 Easy Steps“.

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The Best Web Hosting For Website Starters

reach2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 10:24:52 +0000

…there are gazillions search results. Are you scratching your head and wondering what are the differences between Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, and Dedicated Server Hosting? In this guide, we will help you to figure out the best Web Hosting for your WordPress website.

A Great CMS Deserves An Awesome Web Hosting

Welcome to the world of WordPress. You have chosen one of the best website Content Management Systems (CMS) in the market today.

With a great CMS, you will need an awesome Web Hosting to pair with it, and we highly recommend SiteGround.

You’ll understand why in this article.

By the way, have you seen our simple guide on “5 Reasons You Should Use WordPress To Build Your Website”?

If not, we highly recommend that you sign up your email in the box BELOW so that we can email you right away.

5 reasons you should
Use WordPress To Build Your Website

Now, the reason you have found this article is because you are researching on the best WordPress Web Hosting company in the market for Website Starters.

You might have Googled the following keywords, and here is what you may see…

…there are gazillions search results.

Are you scratching your head and wondering where to begin?

What are the differences between Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, and Dedicated Server Hosting?

In this guide, we will help you to figure out which Web Hosting is the best for Website Starters.

Firstly, let us list down some Web Hosting companies you might have come across:

SiteGround
GoDaddy
WPengine
BlueHost
DreamHost
HostGator
InMotion
A2Hosting
Liquid Web
FlyWheel

The list above is by no means exhaustive.

As you would have guessed, all these Web Hosting companies offer similar yet different functionality for people looking to host their WordPress website.

Thus, we strongly suggest you to take some time to review each of the Web Host offerings.

Undeniably, pricing matters, but we all know the devil is in the details.

So dive deep into the feature sets in their websites to avoid regret.

Types of Web Hosting

Let’s take a look about the categories of Web Hosting before we dive into the benefits of SiteGround.

Broadly speaking, most companies offer 3 categories of Web Hosting services.

However, depending on which option you go for, the plan will offer different performance, scalability, security, management capabilities.

So, which one is suitable for you? Let us find out below:

Compare Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, Dedicated Server Hosting/ Cloud Hosting

It is important to look beyond the monthly price of the Web Hosting.

Furthermore, understanding the difference between the types of Web Hosting will greatly help you to categorize and differentiate the solutions available.

Comparison: Types Of Web Hosting

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Why Choose SiteGround?

Since this article is targeted for Website Starters, we will look only at the Shared Hosting category.

Here are 4 reasons why we recommend SiteGround Shared Hosting to Website Starters:

1. SiteGround has a good Price-Performance ratio

SiteGround was founded in 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Today, they have over 2 million domains on their Web Hosting platform.

With 4 offices and 6 data centres around the world, SiteGround provides Shared Hosting, Cloud Hosting and Enterprise Hosting solutions.

Currently, SiteGround Shared Hosting has the following 3 plans:

Below are 5 areas to look out for when evaluating a Web Hosting plan.

In the case of SiteGround’s Shared Hosting, we recommend the GrowBig Plan. Here is why:

Pricing

SiteGround has one of the lowest starting price points in the market, starting from $6.95/month. However, do note that this is a promotional price on the first sign up for StartUp Plan. As such, you can choose to enjoy this monthly rate for the first 12, 24, or 36 months. After which, the subscription will be back to regular price at $14.95/month. Therefore, if you are serious about building your website for the long term, choose the longest duration available upon first purchase to enjoy better discounts.
GrowBig Plan is what we will recommend, because at an addition of $3/month to StartUp Plan, you are getting a lot more features!

Features

Next, look under the essential features and you will find:

You can host Unlimited Websites with 1 account with the GrowBig plan. This means the multiple websites can be either subdomains of your purchased domains (e.g. blog.yourdomain.com), or even different domain names hosted in the same account. Thus, you should definitely leverage this feature to develop your websites.
You get Unmetered Data Transfer. As you may know, some Web Hosting limits the amount of data transfer in and out (e.g. 50 GB per month). However, with SiteGround‘s unmetered data transfer, you have one less concern while your number of websites and visitors grow.
You get Unlimited FREE Email Accounts. This means you can basically create unlimited mailboxes at maximum 4 GB per user, up to the total cap of your web space (in the case of GrowBig will be 20 GB). What’s more, your email account can be created using your domain name (e.g. wordpress@yourdomain.com), no longer @hotmail.com or @gmail.com. Most importantly, when you need extra email accounts for testing purposes, you would definitely appreciate this convenience on top of your paid email account per seat with Microsoft 365.

Performance

Your website is hosted on a shared server with SSDs, which means the files and databases are placed on high performance storage.
Free Cloudflare CDN is provided for you. It makes your website run faster by caching your website data over multiple datacentres. In other words, if your readers are in a foreign country, the nearest datacentre will help distribute the contents faster to them.

Reliability

Unlimited FREE SSL Certificate. You will want every of your website to have an SSL certificate, powered by Let’s Encrypt. With a secured connection, it gives a padlock sign on your readers’ browser when browsing your website.
Multiple redundancies are incorporated in the Web Host infrastructure design, including Power and Hardware.
Individual hosting account is Containerized, which means that even if there is a vulnerability for an account, it will not affect rest of the accounts on the same server. So, this makes shared hosting more secure.
30 daily automated backups are available. In the unfortunate event that all your files are removed accidentally, you can count on the daily backup at the account level for restoration to a previous known good state.

Support

24×7 support is a must that is handled using chat, call, and email.

So, if you are developing your website and face certain issues that might be related to Web Hosting, you can contact SiteGround support using any of these 3 channels to receive support immediately.

2. SiteGround is Optimized for WordPress workload

Are you aware of the pre-requisite components for your WordPress to run?

If not, let me quote from WordPress website on the Requirements:

We recommend servers running version 7.3 or greater of PHP and MySQL version 5.6 OR MariaDB version 10.1 or greater.
We also recommend either Apache or Nginx as the most robust options for running WordPress, but neither is required.

Sounds complex right?

To illustrate the complexity of the infrastructure and software needed to host WordPress application, let us put all of them in ONE physical computer.

Here is a simplified stack that you need to prepare before loading WordPress application:

We hope the illustration above helps you appreciate what Web Hosting companies like SiteGround are doing for us, to make our life easier.

As you can see, they ensure every software components in this stack works seamlessly with each other.

This is crucial because the foundation needs to be a proven and stable platform, so that you can entrust the Web Hosting company to host your WordPress website.

3. SiteGround made their Site Tools simple to use

Since September 2019, SiteGround began rolling out their new in-house built Site Tools, replacing the legacy cPanel.

We are so glad, because the new interface makes building and managing websites hosted in SiteGround much cleaner and easier than before.

Here is a screenshot of the Site Tool dashboard (we think it is incredibly simple and clean!):

4. SiteGround is recommended by WordPress.org

Just imagine how many Web Hosts WordPress have worked with, to get their platform running and compatible.

Through their experience, WordPress has now featured SiteGround as one of their official recommended Web Hosting companies.

This strong endorsement by WordPress should put many website owners at ease, because SiteGround has earned their trust over 16 years in the WordPress market by providing top notch hosting service.

In fact, one of the top WordPress blogs— wpbeginner blog, is actually using SiteGround’s web hosting solution!

Conclusion

We hope this guide has provided some insight for you to the ecosystems of Web Hosting, and above all, what you should look out for before choosing your web hosting.

In addition, we have written a guide to help you navigate your web hosting purchase from SiteGround, check out our post on “How to Buy Web Hosting at SiteGround in 4 Easy Steps“.

If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to email or chat with us.

We are always ready to read and listen.

Get your SiteGround hosting plan now!.

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How to Buy Web Hosting at SiteGround in 4 Easy Steps [2020]

reach2 — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 06:08:15 +0000

Quick Summary

Web Hosting is where your website lives (think of it as your house). A typical WordPress Web Hosting company, such as SiteGround, provides you a place to park your website files.

After buying your domain name, you will need a web hosting to park your website files.

To do so, you can buy your web hosting from SiteGround in 4 easy steps.

If you would like to understand why we recommend SiteGround, feel free to read more at our post “The Best Web Hosting For Website Starters.”

For now, just click on each link below, or simply scroll down for detailed guidance.

Here we go!

STEP 1: Go to SiteGround.
STEP 2: Select the “GrowBig” plan.
STEP 3: Enter the domain you have bought.
STEP 4: Enter your info, make appropriate selections, then make payment.

Finally, remember to check your email for your receipt and login info!

NEXT STEP: Build an impressive website!

Detailed Steps

STEP 1: Go to SiteGround

Go to SiteGround. Click “Get Started” under the Web Hosting plan.

STEP 2: Select the "GrowBig" plan

We recommend website starters to get the “GrowBig” plan.

The reason is simple — Paying $3 more per month gives you so much more benefits (you can compare from the table picture below).

Most importantly, you get more leeway to expand your website visits; 25,000 vs 10,000 visits monthly is a huge difference.

We all know “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.”

Surely, you don’t want to start off by limiting your website traffic potential.

Therefore, don’t just go for the cheapest web hosting plan in this case.

Of course, you can always upgrade to ‘GoGeek’ in the future when needed.

But for now, the GrowBig plan is sufficient for website starters.

If you would like to see a more in depth comparison of the plans, you can read it at “The Best Web Hosting For Website Starters.”

STEP 3: Enter the domain you have bought

Select “I already have a domain.”

Then enter the domain that you have just bought from GoDaddy or from any other domain name registrar.

Click “Proceed.”

STEP 4: Enter your info and make appropriate selections, then make payment

Firstly, for data center, just select one that is nearest to your location.

Next, for hosting period, we recommend at least 24 months to go with your domain bought for 2 years.

However, if you foresee you would need web hosting for more than 24 months and would rather keep renewal price to the minimum, go ahead and choose 36 months.

Lastly, before acknowledging the T&Cs and making payment, check to see if there are any extra services which are automatically applied.

Be sure to uncheck the extra services, unless you really need them or feel like splurging.

YAY!
You have successfully purchased your web hosting.
Remember to check your email for your receipt and login info!

Next Step

Build an impressive website!

After buying your domain name and web hosting, you are all ready to build yourself an impressive website!

If you need any help on this, we are just a click away.

So, Click HERE to drop us a line.

Or simply click the chat button at the bottom right of this screen to chat with us.

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Reachafar

How to Buy a Good Domain Name and Enjoy Greater Savings

Quick Summary

Detailed Steps

STEP 1: Make sure your domain name is good and available at a reasonable price

STEP 2: Get a reasonable price at GoDaddy

STEP 3: Add your domain name to the Cart

STEP 4: Click "Continue to Cart"

STEP 5: Make money-saving selections and click “Continue to Cart"

STEP 6: Select domain name duration (to own) and create an account with GoDaddy

STEP 7: Select country/region and payment method to complete domain purchase

Next Step

Buy a great Web Hosting to Start Building Your Website

The Best Web Hosting For Website Starters

A Great CMS Deserves An Awesome Web Hosting

5 reasons you should Use WordPress To Build Your Website

Types of Web Hosting

Compare Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, Dedicated Server Hosting/ Cloud Hosting

Comparison: Types Of Web Hosting

Why Choose SiteGround?

1. SiteGround has a good Price-Performance ratio

Pricing

Features

Performance

Reliability

Support

2. SiteGround is Optimized for WordPress workload

3. SiteGround made their Site Tools simple to use

4. SiteGround is recommended by WordPress.org

Conclusion

How to Buy Web Hosting at SiteGround in 4 Easy Steps [2020]

Quick Summary

Detailed Steps

STEP 1: Go to SiteGround

STEP 2: Select the "GrowBig" plan

STEP 3: Enter the domain you have bought

STEP 4: Enter your info and make appropriate selections, then make payment

Next Step

Build an impressive website!

5 reasons you should
Use WordPress To Build Your Website