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by DAVID KAZLAUSKAS - Date: 2009-12-31 - Word Count: 653 Share This!

Hello, my fellow readers. Now I'll tell you, how I've hosted my blog for free (I've never paid a cent for my blog).

"So, where are you hosting it?" Hosting service, which is called x10hosting. I've never seen such a good hosting provider, which doesn't ask you a penny for hosting, gives you 2.5 GB of space (My blog is chipping only 16 MB of this huge chunk), 45 GB of monthly bandwith, If traffic goes wild, to about 2,000 visitors a day, pictures (which eat up most of the bandwith) can be hosted on another site, so, when user loads my page, it takes only up to 45 KB, I've calculated that 1,048,576 users per month can load up my blog without breaking this limit! (A freaking MILLION!, newest php, cpanel 11 (only geeks will understand last two I?ve mentioned) and on and on and on? BUT, however, there is one problem? If you'll use domain name, provided by them, you won't probably gonna be very happy... It will be like ihatemydomainname.x10HOSTING.com. And you don?t want that, you don?t want your domain to be marketing something?

And this is when co.cc comes in handy! This is a FREE co.cc domain names provider. I?ve seen a commercial in stadium during the basketball match on TV. You know these boards around the basketball field, which usually advertise something, and which slide down after few seconds, or they are electronic, like TV?s, so they could change ad? Guess what? There was an ad, which had domain name on it like icantrememberdomain.o2.uk (pay attention to the ending). What I want to say I guess, is that if one guy have spent some money to advertise domain name with .o2.uk ending, and weren't ashamed, why would you ever be then? The other benefit is tho, co.cc is not popular, not known very widely. This means, that a lot of good domains are left untouched. Lets say you?re in MLM, I am pretty sure that there still have left a domain names like mlmtactics.co.cc or mlmstrategy.co.cc (YES, I've checked - while I wrote this article, they still were available) which are very simple and very easy to remember. If you want same with .com domain (domain, which rules the web now), you?ll have think something retarded, in my opinion, like mlmworldwidedomination.com (sounds like Hitler after rising from his grave!!) or mydomainnameissolongbecausemostofthegoodonesarealreadyownedbutitshouldbelikemlmtricks.com since majority of simple domains with .com ending are unavailable.

HOWEVER, if it happens that you have 10$ you could spend, I recommend you going to godaddy.com and buying a .com domain name FOR A WHOLE YEAR FOR FREAKING 10$!!! Decide wisely, because after purchase you can?t change it. Once I've bought .com, now I just don't have any uses for it, unless redirecting people to my blog (you can check yourself, type in your browser mlmtothemaximum.com and it?ll redirect you to my site). Why I don?t use it as a main domain name of my site? This is since it doesn't describe my blog. It can be .com, very close to meaning, but that's just not enough It?s same like advertising tires in site chickensandwitch.com . It just does not fit.

At this moment you need to connect these both - your domain name and hosting. That's why exists feature, called "nameservers". There's a nameservers tab in co.cc user panel. Write ns1.x10hosting.com at nameserver 1 row, and ns2.x10hosting.com at nameserver 2 row. Now login to your X10HOSTING cpanel, and in domain names write your domain from co.cc. After hour, I think, it should do it. There you are - you have finest hosting, notsuckylookingdomainname.co.cc and the best part is ? YOU GOT IT ALL FOR FREE!!!

P.S. If it happens, that you are reading this article at my blog, all the ads to x10hosting, co.cc, godaddy are to your right.

P.P.S. Everybody, happy new year! :)

Read more about blogging, seo and making cash online at google seo with David (www.googleseowithdavid.co.cc).


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