Blog Entry
It doesn’t cost that much
November 23, 2009 by Leeman, under Stuff.
The title is a bit misleading, but actually, there is nothing philosophical, nor metaphoric about it.
A few minutes ago, I visited a site I frequent for Chinese TVB-related torrents and saw a tiny blurb that read: “Please click my sponsored ads. It will help with the monthly costs, else this site might not be here tomorrow.”
THAT is a very misleading statement. Now, I’ve worked in the web and creative production industry for ten years and I currently have five ongoing projects, three of which are personal. I KNOW that running a personal web site DOES NOT cost a lot of money. If it does, those people aren’t buying from the ‘right’ places. Right now, the only web project that is costing me a little more than the rest is Leemanism.com. The domain name costs me about $10 per year. The hosting is through GoDaddy and that costs me about $35 per year with 300 gigabytes of transfers per month and a total of 10 gigs of hosting space. Now, considering these other personal web sites that hold basic graphical data and no actual downloadable data, I call BS that really takes that much money to run their web sites.
As you can clearly see, I have absolutely NO ads on my web site. If I can’t afford $45 per year, why the heck would I even have a web site in the first place, let alone internet? So those people who run personal web sites and ask people to click their ads because they can’t ‘afford’ to run them is spouting BS. However, again, unless they are buying over-priced hosting and domain registrations, their web sites shouldn’t cost much to run. In fact, my other two personal web site projects costs me $1/month in hosting and the service is almost as good as GoDaddy.
Now for those fools who are paying an arm and a leg for your hosting. Either go to http://www.godaddy.com and buy their Economy Hosting for $35/year or go to http://www.webhostingworld.net and buy their Bronze Magic plan for $12/year. As far as domain registration goes:
1) Google: Godaddy coupon dealtaker – click on the first one. Note the coupon for the .com domain registration and copy the code.
2) Go to GoDaddy.com and go through the registration for your domain name.
3) Don’t forget to apply the coupon code to your order before you check out.
I suggest you do 5 or 10 years at a time, to save more. Then after that, all it takes a little internet domain-hook-up knowledge and BOOM, you’re good to go. If you want your own blog on your own site, go to WordPress.org and download their FREE web app. Use FileZilla to upload the files. Use GIMP to edit your images. You will be doing all the PHP/HTML editing through the Content Management System (CMS) in WordPress.
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