Step 4 to a proftable website: Domain and Hosting

The domain name
If you hadn't picked one up earlier from step 2, the now is a good time to get to buy a new domain name. This is another one you shouldn't over think. Search for one that is as short as you can with your topic in the title. There are a few little hints that can help. If you are using multiple words the put a dash (-) between them and I tend to favor .com's if I can get them but I do like .info's too and they are both $10 a year so that's not to hard to recover.

After a bit of work in the thesaurus and lots of already taken options, I came across www.lighting-bible.com and registered it.

Hosting
Choose what hosting you like but we have been around a while and godaddy's seems to be the best option for a low cost starting out option with some room to grow. They have a deluxe plan for $7 a month and you can have unlimited domains, which if you are repeating this is a great option. get what you want, but I would use that as a bit of a benchmark. They also have the added benefit of if you sign up you get your hosting for two bucks. So for our little experiment that's what we'll use.


Yuck... we've spent some money
I case you hadn't read the previous post ( and I suggest you do) , if you do want to make a profit the easiest way to do it is spend as little as possible, so if you see us spending money you'll know it's the bare minimum you can spend to be successful. So we have forked out 79.68 for the hosting for a year + 1.99 for the domain which is 81.67 for the year which works out at about $20 for our 90 day experiment. Doesn't seem so hard now does it, but thats the trick. If you spend some time now and $20 make a profit you can almost forget the website and your costs will stay the same and your income will slowly creep up and you can repeat it over and over. That should be all we need to spend so lets see if we can recover our money.

There's nothing there yet but you can check it out - lighting-bible.com

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