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So, we're talking about hosting in this video, and this is about hostgator.
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So, as you can see, hostgator has options starting at $3.96 per month.
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So we've got the Hatchling plan, the Baby Plan, and the Business plan.
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With all 3 of these plans we get Unlimited space and unlimited Bandwidth.
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So it's really just a question of: do you want more than 1 domain? Do
you need a private SSL certificate? Do you want a toll-free number?
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I think for most people, if you want to have multiple domains and might want to have a
bit of flexibility to host more than one site, the baby plan is probably your best bet.
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If you're just starting out and just want 1 site, go with the
hatchling plan, but let's assume we're going with the baby plan.
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Let's look at the details to see some of
the other things you'll be getting.
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As you can see most of the options are the same.
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Unlimited disk space, domains allowed: 1 and unlimited.
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So let's just go through the process. I'm going to say "order now".
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And so from this point you're going to want to have a domain.
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If you don't already have a domain, you're gonna want to register one.
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Now, you might find it a little more simple to
go ahead and register through the host.
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You're going to spend a little more money by registering through the host.
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We're talking $15/yr through the host or if you buy
through another registrar it's $8.99 per year.
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Not a whole lot of money, but I like to
go ahead and register through a separate host.
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The downside to this is that if you're registering through another host,
you'e going to have to change the name servers
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and it's going to take a little bit of time for that to propagate
so you're going to have some
down time between when you register and get your hosting and when you can actually use it.
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So, it's up to you.
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I'll go ahead and walk you through the process of finding
a domain through a registrar like cheap domain registration.
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So, the nice thing about sites like this is that if the domain you're looking for is not
available, then it'll give you a few other options that you might want to consider.
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So, we'll just search for ipad4.com. but you can
see it'll show you various other variations.
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So once you choose what you want, you'll
just say "add" and "continue registration".
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So once you choose what you want, you'll just say "add" and "continue registration".
And you may want
some of these other ones, you may not.
I'm just going to say "no thanks".
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And we'll just fill out the billing information or login if you're already a member.
Which you're probably not
if you're just doing this for the first time.
And so you've got various settings here.
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so, unless you're doing ecommerce, certified domain doesn't really do a whole for you. Privacy also not a
huge deal for most people, but if you want it, it's a little extra money there.
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And now you can add extra email addresses through the registrar, but that's totally unnecessary 'cause you're going to
be able to get unlimited email addresses through your web host depending on what host you get.
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HostGator is one that will give you unlimited email addresses
with your hosting, so no need for this.
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And so we'll just say "next"
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So once we've picked our domain, we'll go
back here and
"ipad 4 life.com"
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and so we're going to select a username security
pin, and fill out billing information.
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Now, here is the interesting stuff.
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So you'll see we've got a lot of options here.
If you want to pay month by
month, which i really don't recommend, then it's going to be quite a bit more.
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OK, as you can see, there's no price difference on the monthly rate
between a month at a time versus 12 months up front,
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but the thing you've gotta keep in mind is that these prices reflect a 20% discount that you're
only going to get on your first bill - that's when you first sign up,
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so the next billing, your rate is going to increase by about 20%.
So even though it shows the same rate, you are going
to save some money over the course of a year between buying a month up front and buying 12 months up front.
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but if you go ahead and pay for 3 years up front, then you're going to
save about $100 between a 12 month plan and a 36 month plan.
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So, you'll want to fill out your billing
information and then create the account.
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And in the next video, we'll be pointing the domain to the hosting in
case you went ahead and bought that domain from a different registrar.
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