So you’ve registered your domain and are ready to go. Next up you’ll need your hosting service. This service will provide your web server and storage space for everything you need to make your site available to readers.

Again, there are lots of options out there and thankfully you can get a lot for a little when it comes to web hosting. My favorite, and what I used to host this very blog, is HostGator. HostGator is very affordable at just $8/month for a shared hosting plan. That means you are sharing a web server with many other sites, but that’s not a bad thing.

Chances are that a shared plan with provide all the server power you’ll need until you’re drawing so much traffic you need your own server. To give you an idea of how big you can go and survive just fine on a shared plan, I’m running over a half dozen domains with traffic in the tens of thousand of readers a day across them and I’ve never needed more server power than at just a few moments due to huge surges in traffic. And don’t worry, there are new, easy ways to combat and survive those moments.

So there’s another inexpensive entry point to running your own blog. $8 to register and then $8/month to host. It doesn’t get much cheaper than that to start a business!

Read the next step, selecting your blog software, in the 5 steps to getting started guide.

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