Small Business Hosting

Setup your hosting account at GatorHost.org.

Next, decide on which hosting package is right for you. You have a choice between Hatchling, Baby and Business. For most businesses, the Hatchling package will be just fine.

However, I would recommend going with the middle Baby package for one main reason: unlimited domains.

More than likely, you’ll be adding more domains to your account as you grow your business for various reasons, mainly redirects to affiliate programs when you incorporate them into your business plan for multiple sources of income.

You can also use additional domains for tracking purposes. This is really good for print advertising when you want to send someone to a particular page but don’t want some long URL like www.mydomain.com/go-to/this-page. You could use a domain such as www.myextradomain.com and redirect it to that page.

Once you’ve chosen your package, go ahead and register your domain. The domain is an extra $15 and renews annually.

You’ll be able to add additional domains at any time once your account is set up.

Take some time to think about your main domain though. You want something that is both easy to remember and easy to read. Try to avoid hyphens because that makes it really hard to read off to someone.

Imagine trying to say, “my hyphen company dot com” all the time. I heard a radio advertisement one time with a hyphen in the domain. I was like, “seriously?!”

Once you click on Next you’ll be taken to the order screen.

IMPORTANT – use coupon code hgc25 to get your first month of hosting free!

Once you’ve setup you account you’ll get an email like this one below. It’s going to take a bit of time for your new domain to actually be registered and active and found on the internet. Could take as long as 24-48 hours.

But you can get started in setting up your site using the host’s nameservers. Click on that link with /cpanel at the end.

Step 2 – Install Your Content Management System (Wordpress).

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