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Going self hosted right away: How to link Godaddy, Hostgator and WordPress

Going self hosted right away: How to link Godaddy, Hostgator and WordPress
Good morning! Today we continue with our series about making money online. You can check the previous posts about Starting your own website, Choosing a name, domain and hosting, My July blog income and stats, How many hours are you willing to put in?, Blogging mistake #1: blogging in the dark , How I got my Alexa below 100K in 8 weeks, Monetize your site with affiliate and Adsense, August blog income and stats recap. Now let’s talk about Going self hosted right away: How to link Godaddy, Hostgator and WordPress.

 

When you start a blog, if your plan is to make money with it, you should go self hosted right away.  The process is pretty easy, first you need a name and a domain for your blog, you have to buy the domain for at least a year, then a hosting package so that your domain goes live. If you do not buy the two from the same company, you will need to tell the hosting company where your domain was bought. Then, your site is live and ready to be updated by FTP, meaning you upload files directly on the server. If you are new to blogging, the best way around that is to use the WordPress platform in order to write your post in a friendly interface, and let WordPress do the job as far as uploading and formatting is concerned. Here is how to link your new domain, your hosting package, and WordPress so you can start blogging.

 

Linking Godaddy and Hostgator

 

I used Godaddy to register my domain but it will be hosted by Hostgator. I need to change the DNS servers on Hostgator to have them point to Godaddy.

 

1. Log in to Godaddy, buy your domain if you haven’t yet, then click domains and launch.

2. Select your domain, then Set Nameservers

3. Choose custom Nameservers and enter the names of 1st Nameserver and 2nd Nameserver you received from Hostgator’s billing email. They will look something like ns440.hostgator.com

4. Click add to validate, then save.

 

It may take a few moments for the changes to take effect.

 

Linking Hostgator and WordPress

 

Now, your domain is being hosted by Hostgator. The next thing you need is to tell WordPress that you are now hosted by Hostgator.

1. Log in to cpanel with your Hostgator credentials.

2. Click on Quickinstall

3. Under blog software choose WordPress

4. Fill in your email, name and domain name details and install

 

hostgator

 

5. That’s it! You can now log in to yourdomain.com/wp-admin with the credentials provided

 

WordPress is pretty intuitive, you just have to click new post, write something, add a picture if you would like, then click publish and your post is live. Next we will go into more details about the advanced options WordPress offers, such as useful plugins for your site.

Happy blogging!

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Lovely comments

    • Pauline says

      I get that you don’t want to spend $$ from the start if you don’t know where to take your site or if you would monetize at all but it is a small fee for less hassle down the road.

    • Pauline says

      I took 12 months at the start then waited for a black friday sale to buy 3 years, they have great offers a couple of times a year. that one was 75% off.

  14. John says

    Hi Pauline, my domain name is registered with Godaddy. My existing website created using WordPress is hosted by Hostgator. Now I want my newly created e-commerce store (bigcommerce) online.
    Who do I point to where and where do I point, who to? Thank you!

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  17. Tauseef Alam says

    Hi Pauline,

    Very helpful article. People who are just moving from blogger/wordpress to a self hosted blog would definitely find this guide a life saver.

    Thanks for sharing it with us.

    Regards
    Tauseef Alam