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Edman22

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A few months ago I was reading this and other forums constantly, and was willing to invest a few hundred dollars a month to start making some money online. Since then though, I have quit my job and no longer have a steady source of income. The money I have saved I am keeping strictly for going back to school. My question is, should I just pull the trigger and spend a few hundred for hosting and domain fees and see what I can pull off with it? I have unlimited time during the day so I could spend countless hours researching and doing things. The real question is whether to start all of this now, when I don't have much money to invest and am quite the newbie....or should I wait a few months until I know more and possibly have some form of income?

I know it's a pretty subjective question, but I just wanted some input from guys who have been there before. Is it better to just pull the trigger and learn as you go, or to get everything straightened out beforehand?
 


I'm looking at godaddy for my domains and dreamhost for hosting services. I take it these are suitable for a beginner?
 
I think I'm going to go ahead and do it tomorrow. Are godaddy for domains and Dreamhost for hosting good options for a beginner like me?
 
There's always free hosts / domains. Not the way to build long term, but could show you if you can do anything or not...

But really, $6-9 for a domain, hosting from $3.95/mo, free WordPress, what's not to say give it a shot?
 
Yea I don't mind spending a few hundred right now. I figure I'm unemployed so that basically means I can devote my entire day towards this. The only part that I get slightly nervous about is future expenses. For example, should I expect to make some money (not a lot) my first month?...and if I don't does that mean I need to change things or just stay the course and expect to make some cash in 2-3 months? Anyways even as I ask this question it seems to me that these are only really questions that I can answer myself as I learn about what it is I'm going to do...
 
There is a lot of bad being said about dreamhost, I use them and everything is fine.

Your mileage may vary.

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DaveEMG said:
I don't get what's going to cost hundreds of dollars? Are you trying to launch 30 sites all at once? Can't you just limp in to the hand with a couple domain registrations and a few $4/mo hosting packages?
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Initially I was looking at dreamhost since the most cost effective way of signing up was getting 1 year plus since I wouldn't have to pay setup fees and the price would be discounted. Now I'm debating between dreamhost and hostgator since it seems the latter is 8 bux a month without a sign-up fee. And I am also planning on buying a few domains to save money that way also.
 
What about moniker? I've been searching the boards and that seems to have been recommended a few times.

I don't really understand how the place you register your domain could be bad though. I thought it's all the same, but how can one place be worse than another when all they're doing is registering your domain?
 
Hey Edman, if you decide to use hostgator don't forget to search for "hostgator coupon code" in google. With "baby" shared hosting plan, you only pay cents for your first month... (incase you missed it)
 
Godaddy gets a bad rep because they have some fine print in their tos that allows them to seize your domain if they suspect you of doing suspicious things. I'm not quite sure, I believe Lord_Brar is more familiar w/ the problem so you could go ahead to him about that.

I haven't used Dreamhost, but it seems that they were good in 05/06 and then took a turn for the worst in 07. Now, most people are praising hostgator. I can vouch that the hostgator support team is actually helpful and know what their talking about. I'd say go w/ them, but I really haven't heard much about dreamhost other than some event (not even sure if it was a string of events) that caused people to think poorly of them.

If you're just new and looking to purchase a domain, all I can say is that godaddy would be good as far as interfaces go, but if you're looking for complete control over your domains (without question), you might want to go to moniker or something. Godaddy isn't all that bad though, I haven't experienced any problems with them to date, personally.

For cheaper individual domain purchases, with free whoisguard use namecheap. I'm not necessarily familiar with Moniker so, again I'll say, for purchasing 5 or more domains at a time, and looking for free whois privacy, use godaddy.
 
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