Bluehost
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Bonus Notes
Starting out BlueHost can be one of the best and budget-friendly ways to get started. They offer a solid hosting package and take care of some basic WordPress management.
Pricing
Bluehost really shines on pricing because you can’t really get cheaper than $2.75 per month. Think about it coffee at Starbucks is probably $5, the pricing is super great!
This pricing applies when you purchase a 3-year plan so you a reliable host for 3 years and you do not have to worry about it. The 3-year plan comes out to just under $100! This is truly a great investment to make for your business that for a lot of people is a great way to just pay once and not think about the tech for a long time. If you need to commit to less time the year plan is 4.95 / month totaling about $60 and a two-year plan is $3.95 / month totaling about $95 dollars.
Bluehost also takes care of your domain for the first year which is a nice little bonus in the cost variables.
Features
Their features are basic and reliable. The lowest tier has plenty to get someone started.
- 1 Website
- Free SSL Certificate
- 50 GB SSD Storage
- Free Domain for 1 Year
- 5 Parked Domains
- 25 Subdomains
Higher tiers start with the unlimited plans of unlimited domains and subdomains.
- Unlimited Websites
- Free SSL Certificate
- Unmetered SSD Storage
- Free Domain for 1 Year
- Unlimited Parked Domains
- Unlimited Subdomains
Bluehost is a great place to get started because they offer really affordable prices especially if you can jump into the 3-year plan. If you need the flexibility of a month to month plan then Bluehost will probably not be for you.
WordPress
Bluehost offers WordPress pre-installed and offers a number of tools to manage your WordPress install.
Extras
The extra of a free domain for a year is a nice little perk, especially when getting started. Bluehost also offers great support via chat.
Module Materials
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Hey, hey, welcome back!
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In this video, I want to show you my four
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top resources for hosting
and talk about their benefits and their
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cons and talk about
the differences between them.
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So I have four recommendations based
on where you are,
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where you see your business going and what
type of business you're going to be
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running or what type of blog
you're going to be running.
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So there's some different
options to kind of think about.
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So let's get started.
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And again,
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in this course, I want to give you some
options and have you make the decision.
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And in the previous sections,
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if you already got your domain via a host,
you may just be sticking with that host.
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And three of these options give
you an option to get your domain.
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And the last one has you get your
domain separately from their hosting.
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Alright.
So let's get started.
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First up, we have BlueHost.
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BlueHost has been in the market
for a very, very long time.
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They are one of the recommended
hosting companies by WordPress.
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They have a great starting price at two
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ninety five per month and they do give you
your domain for free for the first year.
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And they also have free
SSL certificate included.
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And this is important.
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And all of these options do have this,
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but the free SSL certificate
is very, very important.
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One thing to notice is this two ninety
five per month is kind of a "gotcha."
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It's two ninety five per month
if you do a long term plan.
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So if we click on get started.
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It's still one of the best options
for pricing, especially if you're
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getting started and you want something
very low to get started with.
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But two things are gotchas.
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One, the two ninety five is a promotional
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price, and it is if you
do a longer contract.
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So if we select this
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and I'm just going to say I'm going to use
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my own domain or I'll
create the domain later.
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So if you want to create your
domain, you can search here.
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If you have your own domain already,
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you can do this option or you can
also create your domain later.
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So we'll just create my domain later.
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Alright, so this is what I want to point
out so basic, thirty six month price is
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to ninety five per month, but you're still
paying out one hundred and six dollars.
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Yes, you get hosting for three years,
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but you are paying out one
hundred and six dollars.
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If you go to just a 12 month price,
you're paying sixty dollars at four ninety
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five a month, which is still a great price
and I'm not trying to discount them.
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It's a really, really good price.
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These are really good prices.
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But one thing to think about is
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if your site grows fast,
BlueHost may not be the best option
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and you may be looking
at switching to a different host.
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So committing for that thirty six months
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might be something that in a year you
might be ready to move to somewhere else.
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Sites get slow.
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If you have a lot of traffic,
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it's really hard to manage on shared
hosting, which is what this is,
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and BlueHost to keep their
prices really, really low.
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They put a lot of sites on one server
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and so think about, you know,
you're in a train car and there's
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20 seats and then there's,
you know, one hundred people.
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Well, it's going to be very, very tight.
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But if they limit it to just the 20 seats
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that they have the capacity for,
then everybody is comfortable.
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So that's how they do it.
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They you know, they have really
great options for pricing.
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And I'm not discounting them.
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They're a reputable host.
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But you do have to think about where you
want to be in a year and if that's still
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going to work for you
and you can always upgrade.
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And there are upgrade
options and blue host.
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But it's just something to think about
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and something to think about
that you're not really paying two
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ninety five per month.
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You're paying one hundred
and six dollars a one time fee.
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And yes, you have now thirty six months.
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But if that's not within your budget,
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then maybe paying seven dollars
a month might work better.
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Alright,
so these options you really don't need,
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they're just additional options
that they try to up-sell you with.
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It is security tools,
but hopefully by the end of this course
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you'll have some other options to get
you some great security tools.
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So then you add on your credit card
information and you're good to go.
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And again, if you switch this up,
you can see the prices for twenty four
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months, which is really the same price
as your like ten dollars more to do.
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Thirty six months and then
your 12 month prices which 60.
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OK, you know maybe we can handle 16.
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A lot of times that like
jump to over 100 is a lot to handle.
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So it's still an investment.
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It's still something to think
about your options there.
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Let's take a look at the other plans.
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And then also I want to talk about
once that first year or first three years
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is up, then you're going to go to a plan
that you're paying seven ninety nine for.
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You're paying eight dollars
a month for just fine.
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It's still a great price.
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But just kind of keep that in mind as
you're going through these options.
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If you're looking to kind of grow using
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the choice or the plus or the choice
plus might be some good options.
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And then pro is if you have a lot
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of traffic and need some more performance
and some more help in that way.
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I've had a lot of clients on BlueHost.
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They have improved their interface greatly
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and we'll take a look at the
interface and the next lessons.
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So they're a great option
and something worth considering.
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And if you use my link, I believe
you get an additional percentage off.