In this guide, I will show you how to sign up for a Bluehost account. I have used other web hosting in the past but now decided to settle with this company since the service is excellent and you don't have to worry about the numerous upsells others companies put out during registration which confuses newbies and ending up buying more than what they really needed. Bluehost gives you a free domain when signing up for a hosting account and they also allow you to host unlimited number of domains under one hosting account. Let's get started!
This is for the Online Marketer who wants quality, easy to use web hosting, and they are learning how to do some technical things like the following: Masking websites, Registering domains, Redirecting their domains to either a website they built or another website like a blog or a capture page, Learning a bit about how to navigate the control panels, and Increasing their HTML skills.
I have used Bluehost for several of my accounts for years. They have typically given me good service, though occasionally I have had to deal with the 'he says, she says' and have had to go between several different third parties until I got an answer. Don't get me wrong, Bluehost reps know their stuff, but they can be pretty rude if the type of question doesn't fall exactly within their scope of support. Their online support such as email and ticket questions can be a nightmare as there are WAY too many options.
First set up your web hosting account with the your provider. It will make things easier later. Some providers will not allow you to initially set up an account when the domain is already associated with another provider or account. I underline the world 'initially' as this applies only to a brand new account. This is the case for Bluehost anyways. The workaround for this is to simply get a new domain. Some hosting providers will offer a free domain with new accounts so you can use this opportunity to register a new bluehost blog domain and then use that domain to set up the account. The reason for this is that when you first set up an account they will use the domain name as the account name. Every other domain is considered an 'add-on domain'.
IX give us phone support (toll free if you live in the U.S), live chat, and e-mail ticket services, all are available 24/7, 365 days/year. These services tick all the right boxes, but in terms of the quality they are way behind the likes of Lunarpages, Bluehost, and Hostgator. We advise that you test them out yourself first, to see if their service level is acceptable to you.
The more of the five steps noted above and the five from the previous post you do, the more likely you'll be to start off with the best chance of success.