Following yesterday’s first step of building your first website by registering a domain name, the biggest question I get is, “Where is my website?”

Well, it’s homeless — and it needs a place to live.

Just like when you registered your business name, you still don’t really have a business until you “open shop,” whether it’s online or in the bricks-and-mortar world.

The next step is web hosting.

Because you’re starting out, all you need is plain vanilla hosting. You don’t need dedicated or special platform hosting or robocop hosting. Let’s make this simple.

First, what is hosting?

Think about if you were to open a store, you’d need to either LEASE or RENT space to have customers visit you, right? Well, hosting is the place you would “lease” space to “host” your new (domain or store) name.

You can Google “top 10 web hosting companies” but be cautious because there are a lot of rats out there. Not all web hosting companies are created equal.

Here is one I’ve used, and one that’s recommended by the World’s Fastest Webmaster: www.lovellhosting.com and www.hostrocket.com. The key is getting great tech support. And these two companies’ support services are very good.

You can expect to spend anywhere from $7.95 to $14.95 per month for shared web hosting. And that’s more than you’ll need to get started.

When you get successful in your online business, simply upgrade your package to accommodate the amount of traffic you’re getting.

You’re almost there…

Stay for the next episode of building your very first website.

Andy

P.S. If you just can’t wait to learn more, check out: www.faster-webmaster.com.

P.P.S. Yesterday, I interviewed Erik Stafford – The Faster Webmaster. You can still listen to the replay call here for FREE.