This is part 1 in a series of post about setting up WordPress on Bluehost.com
This is the first of a few post that I’ll be writing about my design process. These posts will be short and to the point. Really for my own reference than anything else, but some people may find them helpful.
I buy a lot of my domains through goDaddy.com. goDaddy is pretty convenient and I can usually find coupon codes online to get domains pretty cheap(search goDaddy coupons). Beware when buying sites other than .com’s from goDadddy.com, they can be much more expensive when renewing domains that aren’t .com’s and they don’t regularly offer coupons for domains other than .com’s. Their renewal rate for .us sites lately have been as high as $20!
Bluehost Hosting
I’ve been using Bluehost for over a year now, and for a shared host and smaller site, it seems to work pretty well. I haven’t had any issues with them, but I have witnessed a few bigger sites(thou, not huge) struggle with their service. If you’re not using a CMS Bluehost should be fine. If you’re using a CMS like WordPress, you don’t expect a huge amount of traffic at first and you have things setup correctly you shouldn’t have any problems. At least I haven’t noticed any.
Forward a domain name from goDaddy to Bluehost
- 1. Goto goDaddy.com and login.
- 2. Once logged-in click on “My Account”.
- 3. Find “MY PRODUCTS” in the menu and click it.
- 4. Under “Domains” click on “Domain Manager”
- 5. Once the page reloads, click on the domain you want to forward to Bluehost.
- 6. Under “Nameservers” click “Set Nameservers”.
- 7. Select “I have specified nameservers for my domains.”.
- 8. In “Nameserver 1:” add NS1.BLUEHOST.COM
- 9. In “Nameserver 2:” add NS2.BLUEHOST.COM
- 10. Click the “OK” button. You can now logout of goDaddy.com.
- 11. Goto bluehost.com
- 12. If you don’t have an account, create one. If you have an account click on “Control Panel Login”.
- 13. Enter the Domain you created with the account and your password.
- 14. Once logged into C-panel, find “Domains” and click on “Domain Manager”.
- 15. Click “Assign a domain to your cPanel account”
- 16. Under “Enter Domain” make sure “Use a domain that is not already associated with your account.” is selected and type your domain name into the text input area.
- 17. If you want your domain to point or forward to a site you already have set up, select “Parked Domain” under “Choose Addon vs Parked”. Otherwise skip this section. If you don’t know what that means, skip this section.
- 18. (Most people can skip this and if you don’t know what i’m talking about, skip it.) If you want your site in a Sub-domain on a site you already have hosted on Bluehost, select “Use an existing directory.” in “Choose Addon Directory and Sub-domain” and select the name you want for the subdirectory. If You select this your site will appear in example.mySite.com/rather than example.com.
- 19. Select “Create a new directory.” and enter in a name that you would like associated with your site. This will be the file name that your site will be in on your server.
- 20. Click “Add Domain”
Next time lets set up a ftp user name and password, then we’ll install WordPress and Thematic. If you have questions leave them in the Comments below.