I was browsing on the net once and came across a really well designed website, it was a personal homepage but i liked the way it was done. i saw the domain name and it was on one of the free hosting servers, with a long URL and had a banner on the top of the page provided by the hosting company. It just made me think.

Hosting is dirt cheap, you can host a website right from 2 dollars a week (www.oxynic.com) and you can register a domain name for as less than $8.95 a year. You dont have to be smart enough to workout you can have a website for the cost of a burger a month.

I always fail to understand people who spend a lot of their time and make beautiful website, and end up hosting on a free server with long names and lot of banners.
[sigh]

Why settle for a subdomain of wordpress or blogspot.com when you can easily host one on your own domain at very cheap prices. There are many reasons why you should host a blog on your own domain, but i think the main reason apart from total freedom and self control, is the fact that hosted blogs seem to take preference when it comes to blogging for money.

I use Oxynic.com, I switched from my New Zealand provider because I found them to not only be cheaper but very professional as well as they had a good understanding about blogging requirements and were able to advise me of exacly all the benefits and what i needed.

They start at $1.95 per month which gives you

• 5 MB Disk 
• 300 Megabytes Transfer  
• Host your own domain name 
• Free domain transfers 
• unlimited sub domain 
• 24-hour FTP access 
• unlimited POP accounts 
• Unlimited email Aliases 
• Browser-accessible Webmail 
• Catch-all email address  
• PHP, MySQL, Python, CGI, Perl..etc supported 
• site traffic statistics 
• Raw Stats

This package is perfect for those who are new to blogging. You can make a blog in this Starter Web Hosting Package play around with it and see if it works for you till you are ready for the bigger deal.  If you would later on wish to upgrade to a higher hosting plan, we would upgrade your account without your site going down and no upgrade charges.
This plan is perfect for small business who would like to make a few page blog describing their company and their products or for any other individual or organisation whose need is to add a few pages on the internet.

Once you get your own domain you can host as many blogs as you want as Oxynic allows you to have unlimited sub domains which means if you have a domain called bloggerholic.com then, you could have another sub domain called makemoney.bloggerholic.com with no charge what so ever. Using Oxynic Cpanel you can install almost any application you want such as wordpress blog, forum, gallery and so much more.

For more information read “the truth about free web hosting“

Its crucial you submit your site with popular internet directories like Dmoz and Yahoo. This is important if you want a good Page Rank on your site because a link to a page counts as a vote of support. Dmoz and Yahoo are the two popular directories you will definitely want your web site listed in. They can bring you lots of traffic and its easy to get listed. All you have to do is go to their website and choose an appropriate category to submit to and simply follow the online instructions for submitting your site. The best part is its FREE!

Whether you are a beginner, novice or experienced designer, we explain all the essentials of blog creation and building a successful blog for your personal or commercial website and we guide you in the right direction. This tutorial gives you a complete and thorough understanding of the web and how it works and will walk you through all the steps to create your own blog website explaining exactly what to do from registering a domain name to marketing your website.

Contents

Domain Name Registration

• Things to consider when registering a domain
• Choosing a domain name
• What if your domain name is not available?

Blog Hosting

• Things to consider when choosing a web host
• What do I get when I host with someone
• How much does hosting cost

Building your Blog

• How do I get Started?
• Blog Software
• Freelance Web Designer

Make Money with your Blog

• E-commerce
• Affiliates Programs
• Paid Ads
• AdSense

Marketing your Blog

• What is Page Ranking
• Getting Traffic to your Website
• Search Engines
• Directories - Get Listed on DMOZ, Yahoo and More
• Link Exchanges - Add your URL to increase your links popularity

Search Engine Optimization

• External Links
• Content
• Don’t have Similar Looking Websites
• Inbound Links
• Make your links work
• Sitemap
• “Keywords”, “Description” and “Page Title”