How to Make a Blog Using Free Domain and Hosting

I’m sure you already know what a blog is, Blog is contraction from Weblog, it is a type of website that maintained usually by personal people with regular basis of content or post. People use blog for some reasons such as express their activities, sharing information or knowledge with others, or even for individual business like introducing a product.

For people that is not familiar with internet, may have a question how to make a blog?. When start learning, it is not so bad for making a blog freely using free domain and free hosting. What is domain? domain is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS). Hosting is internet service where you store data files of your blog, so that your blog can be accessed thru the World Wide Web.

There are many services that offer domain and hosting freely, but at this time I want to use Free Domain Co.cc and Free hosting ByetHost. The reasons why I used this free hosting are that Byet provides free FTP, PHP 5, MySQL and our very popular feature: The Automatic Script Installer (Like Fantastico) You can install many popular scripts such as PHPbb2 and PHPbb3, Wordpress, Zen-Cart, osCommerce, MyBB, UseBB, MyLittle Forum, 4images, Coppermine, SMF, Joomla, e107, XOOPS, PHP Wind, CuteNews, Mambo, WikiWig and many more! No need to wait a long time uploading files, Byet Automatic Script Installer deploys your files in seconds! You can find Byet Automatic Script Installer in the Vistapanel.

Let’s begin with Sign Up for free domain Co.cc by going to www.co.cc then click Create Account Now link, or go here. Fill the form for Username and Password and form Account Information like the pictures above. After you complete all fields, check I accept the Terms of Service and press Create an Account Now button. If you entered correct data, your account page will now appear.

Once you succeed creating Co.cc account, you can now create Co.cc name for your domain by pressing Getting a New Domain link. in the Search for available domain names box, enter your free domain name, e.g: justexample then press Check Availability to ensure whether domain name you entered has not been used by other people. If your domain name is available you can continue registration by pressing Continue to Registration button.

Once your domain name successfully registered, you should set up domain by pressing Set up button, or Domain Settings -> Manage Domain -> Select your domain -> Set Up. If you don’t set up registered domain within 48 hours, Co.cc will cancel the registration. In set up domain page there are 3 methods: Name Server, Zone Record, URL Forwarding, this time I will choose Name Server method, later you will enter name server related to your hosting.

The Next step, you should register to free hosting service, Byethost. Fill the blank fields, and ensure you enter valid email address, this will use to activate your account. Check your email, and find activation email in your inbox, click activation link given by Byethost. Account information has been created, save this information, you will need these information to manage your account and setup a blog.

Ok, now you have free domain and free hosting account. To start making a blog you should login to your Control panel, url listed. Enter your username and password. Your control panel page appear now, start by setting up domain first. In Domain menu, click Addon Domains, enter your free domain you have created in Co.cc, in my example I created justexample.co.cc then press Add Domain button. You should back to your Co.cc account to setup Name Server. In the picture below Byethost has 5 name server, enter these name server when setup domain, you should add 3 more name server, press Setup button after entering all 5 name server of Byethost.

We almost finish creating a blog, now you will install software for blog. In Software & Services, click i-Vista Easy Script Installation link. Select your destination in drop-down menu, then press Proceed button. In the next step you should select software, Byethost serves several software such as Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Zen Cart, etc. At this time you select wordpress 2.8 as your software, press Install Now button.

when selecting path, leave the field blank because we plan to install in root directory of justmyexample.co.cc, then press Complete Install button. Congratulation, you just successful created a blog with url justmyexample.co.cc, this is type non-www, if you want to change this blog become www.justmyexample.co.cc, simply go to admin page and change your blog url in setting page.

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