Whar can I buy a CHEAP website? The cheapest really. I'd like to know.
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Jay Def said, (35 days ago)
What are you looking to buy?
A domain? Hosting? All of the above?
Also, what do you want to do with it.
Also, @The Mad Silentist: HI!
The Mad Silentist said, (35 days ago)
@Jay HI! We actually just want to have a website to display text, things we've written.
The Mad Silentist said, (35 days ago)
@Jay Also, we really don't know what domain or hosting even means.
Naturelle Rivera said, (35 days ago)
i use surpass hosting. my monthly plan is $6. i'm almost positive you can buy the domain from them as well, but domain stuff for me is super tricky cos i bought mine from a different company who refuses to change any of the DNS stuff and its a really complicated mess. but it was cheap. :o/
Jay Def said, (35 days ago)
So a blog site would work for you?
Okay...here are the definitions:
Domain: The address of the website. My domain is jaydef.com.
Hosting: A service which allows you to use their servers to host your website.
If you want a free site where you you can display stuff you've written, my recommendation would be wordpress.com.
You will get a full domain name of ***.wordpress.com, but it works really well, and looks nice, and has a lot of features. You can also choose to add a domain that theirs would redirect to.
If you would like a fully paid site, you will need to register a domain. (I'd suggest GoDaddy.com for that. It's a yearly fee, and pretty inexpensive.)
But then you would need to go to a hosting site for that. I pay $11.95/month (or something like that) for my hosting through Site5.com.
Also, if you go this route, you'd need to have a little bit of knowledge of database stuff (I found tutorials that showed me how to do this on the web.)
If you don't know a whole lot about web stuff, I would recommend wordpress.com. It's quick, easy and free.
Sosane said, (35 days ago)
JAY my dear, you are so helpful. HEARTS.
ALSO MY THREAD TOTALLY PWNS RICS MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HAH.
Jay Def said, (35 days ago)
Yeah, I didn't see his because he and I weren't on each other's team anymore.
No-Headed Boy said, (35 days ago)
http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
You can very easily end up paying a few cents a month. It's 1 cent a month per megabyte stored, and 1 cent per gigabyte throughput. The average site (excluding the top 1%) ends up costing 11 cents a month.
It's a pretty cool company all said. I've had sites there for a few years now and I'm 100% pleased with them. There's just such a refreshing lack of bullshit about them.
strangerbox said, (35 days ago)
i second jaydef's rec of godaddy.com for a domain name. like he said, you don't have to host your site there but i believe they have hosting plans as well if you want to do it all in one place.
for my blog which is hosted by wordpress, once it has a good number of posts and a bit more of an audience i'm planning to buy a domain name for it through godaddy and have it pointed to wordpress.
google also has free web hosting, with very limited options for design. i don't know how much space they offer, but it's quick to set up and you don't need ftp or anything.
Oh fail.
I made this too.