Step 1 ? Buy a domainYou need to buy a domain. A domain is the address of your website, like google. com. Buy a domain that has to do with your subject or business you are creating. I recommend getting one that has a . com and nothing else like . net or . org. Domains usually cost around $8 every year if you register it with GoDaddy.

Step 2 ? Buy Hosting for you new siteThe next thing you need is a host. This is someone who will store your site on a server so that anyone can access it. Hosting usually costs $8 a month. The hosts I recommend are Blue host, Host Monster, and Network Solutions. Once you get a host, you will need to either transfer your domain to them or point your domain to them. Get more info on that from your hosting company.

Step 3 ? Build a websiteThis is not as scary as it may sound. If you know anything about HTML, then you can go ahead and build your own site. The easier thing to do though is to just browse online and get a free template that has all the designs premade for you. You can also use Wordpress which makes everything a lot easier. Just keep in mind that WP is more for people who plan on blogging or writing articles.

Step 4 ? Market the Hell out of itThis is my favourite part. Once you have your product on your site or your affiliate links in place, all you have to do is go out and find a targeted audience and create a marketing plan stating how you will promote to them. You put up your link to your site on as many forums, articles, videos, etc, as you can. Let people know that you exist.

If you just start trying different service providers paying $60-$150 per year, this trial and error approach is costly, as most of the time that should be used to focus in the website development, is being occupied by these repeating task of moving and checking of new web host. A smart webmaster that have made the correct choice initially may have already seeing some success in the website since time is spent wisely on building traffic for the website instead of busy moving it from one web host to another.

How can we minimize the error of making the wrong choice of web hosting provider initially? Well, here is a simple three step approach that can help any webmaster to find the web host that fits.

Some webmasters are considering cost only; they generally ignore band width and other factors like service. Let’s list them up now:

1. Cost
2. Band width
3. Services (call centers)
4. Domain registration.
5 Different file extension support.

Actually one should start from setting one’s priorty.You need to understand what you really need before searching for any web host, take a piece of paper and list down your own expectations from your soon to be web hosting partner, for example, since you are new to everything, you would prefer to have a much more friendly and patience, dedicated support staff that can guide you along while you are setting up your website etc. List down as much as possible so that you understand what you really want from your web host, this is important step as most people tends to skip this process and ended up in the trial and error approach mentioned earlier.

Don’t be surprise if you are getting some not so popular web hosting companies from advanced webmasters, there are lots of good web hosting providers that do not conduct massive marketing campaign or offer bulk resources hosting plans with cheap rates, these good web hosts grow their business through word of mouth, and most of them have clients that has been hosting with them for years. These are the web hosting provider that you should be partnering with if you are serious about building your website to a success, chasing after the cheapest plan is not a good or long term option.
Personally check and verify shortlisted web host before commit

Take out the long list of questions you have done up in step one, and send them to each of the shortlisted web host, then carefully go through the responses, you’ll be surprise you can still able to filter out some of them, particularly those that is providing ‘canned replies’ those that do not provide the answer that is up to your expectations, and identify the one that you are feeling most comfortable hosting with.

Bare in mind that your web hosting provider is an important business partner of yours, and it does contribute to the success of your website in one way or another if chosen wisely.