Many of the people choose blogger.com for their blog due to ease of using it and lack of little technical knowledge required for setting up a self-hosted blog. If you need to own your blog on a domain name (like www.yoursitename.com), you have to have some guidance for it, which I am providing in this post now. You need guidance for it just for saving your time, otherwise you can do it yourself, by try and error method (of course, you should try this method for a Free Hosting plan along with a free subdomain).

Firstly, let me mention three essential things you will need for a self-hosted blog.

(1) A domain name, which you can buy at only around 15$/year.

(2) A web hosting service, which will provide services to set up your blog online. The average fees for such services are almost 7 to 9$/month, varying based on monthly bandwidth limit of your blog, disk space etc.

(3) A blogging-platform, which is essentially the software that handles the behavior of your blog. The well-known example is Wordpress, which can be downloaded for free from www.wordpress.org (not www.wordpress.com).

Steps to be taken

In these steps, it is assumed that you are going to install Wordpress in your hosting account.

  • Firstly, buy a web hosting account and a domain name of your choice.
  • Once you have your domain name and web hosting account, you are ready to install blogging software (in this case, Wordpress) in it.
  • There is a very simple method to install the blogging software on your web hosting account. In your Control Panel (or CPanel), look for menus, which provide installation of various scripts. An example of such option is “Elefante Free Scripts”. Using this (or similar one) tool, you can install Wordpress just by some clicks only.

Installing Blogging Software using Elefante Free Scripts

  • During installation, you may need to enter account information for the specific blogging software. That is, if you are going to install Wordpress, just create your free account on www.wordpress.com and then provide the account information during installation.
  • Also, any blogging software needs to use a database like MySQL. So, if you haven’t created it (which is most likely the case), the installation will ask you to create one. Don’t panic, you have to just give a name to create MySQL database, that’s all!
  • One important thing to note: During installation, you will be asked to give a path for installation (just like usual installation on your PC). If you want your site to be a blog only, then give the path like “www.yoursitename.com/”.
  • That is all! You have created your self-hosted blog! To verify, open your site and you should see a blog there (of course, without your posts).

How to login to start posting

Now, after setting up your blog, you want to start posting. But where to go for it? For logging in to manage your blog, you have to have Admin URL for your blog. To see it, login to your web hosting account and look at your installed program list.

Finding Admin URL of your blog.

Wordpress will be there. Now, look at Admin URL for it and note it down for future reference. After opening that URL, you are on the Login Page of your blog. So, login to it and after doing so, there is your Dashboard of Wordpress. Have a look around it carefully to see what you can do with it.

Your Wordpress Dashboard.

After all, learning is the process of building yourself! And if you really need any further help related to Wordpress, go to the Help page or Help forum to have your question resolved.

Hope, this post will help you in setting up your self-hosted blog. Comments and questions are always welcome!


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