- Once you’re ready to get your hosting and make your blog happen, go back to the Hostmonster Domain Check page. Enter thedomain name that you’ve chosen and verified and click Next.
- Fill out your information in all the blanks – you know how this is done.The Domain Privacy option means that if people look up to find out who owns the website they’ll be given Hostmonster’s contact information instead of yours. This keeps random people from contacting you, and could in theory prevent some spam from spiders that harvest email addresses from the whois database. Frankly, I don’t think this is a big deal. Of the dozens of websites I’ve run, I never actually got more than a handful of contacts from the Whois database.
If the Domain Privacy is free then there’s no reason not to sign up for it; however, it’s not something that I’d ever pay anything for.
- Once you’ve registered for your hosting, Hostmonster will email you your login info for the admin section of your website.Be aware that they will also require you to call them up and verify that you are, in fact, a real person. The reason they do this is to prevent automated programs from creating a bunch of accounts to take advantage of their very inexpensive hosting. Frankly I consider this verification of your sentence another nice feature of Hostmonster.
And we’re almost done!
You now have a website and you have a domain name. Of course, there’s nothing on your site but a construction message, but with the click of a couple buttons we’ll have your blog up and running in minutes.
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