How to start a website with less than 5$?

Creating a website or a blog nowadays costs nearly nothing.

This post is about creating a website with as low as 5$ despite the common knowledge being that to start a website you need hundred of dollars to get started.

This applies to anyone and no matter your niche, country, background, etc

In this post, I’ll explain the steps you will need to follow in other to host a fully secured website with SSL, cms, and other features for as low as less than 5$

What is a website or a blog and why should you have one?

Blogs/ websites are business tools.

In this era where most of us turn to the internet for our search and our news,

those who provide that news and answers to the tons of questions we have are the bloggers or the owners of the websites

Another utility might be if you want to make your business available online (digitalization)

You can start selling your services or products through the internet by owning a website.

Lots of people make thousands with their websites this way.

So creating a website nowadays is just unavoidable or I will say recommended

But as I will elaborate in this post creating a website isn’t as expensive as it might seem to be if you are doing it yourself.

How to create a website with only 5$

First of all, creating a website requires you the following

Obtaining a domain name for one year ( the name of your website + an extension) 0.99$
Choose your niche
Finding a web hosting service provider free
Buy a starter hosting plan 1.99$
Transfer your domain free
Host your website free
Configure and create your website free

Obtaining a domain name for one year

Usually obtaining a domain name requires you to first of all taking into consideration the tips to find a good domain name

When you are done finding your domain name you need to go to Godaddy.com

Then enter your domain name in the search bar to check its availability

Once you find your domain name is available

Proceed to the payment and enter the following GoDaddy coupon code(it reduces 96% to your cart): GHDOMUSD1

Disclaimer: This coupon code isn’t an affiliate code or whatever and it works just fine if you proceed as I mentioned above

Finding a website hosting service

After buying the domain name you need to find a hosting provider and in my case, if you want to spend less than 5$ in creating your website,

You will be using Dreamhost as your hosting provider

I’ll recommend you to use my affiliate link here

Since I might earn a commission if you buy to host your website here.

Buy a hosting plan

Once you create your account you’ll need to choose the first plan with a reduction of 90% on your first month if you use my referral link

You choose the third option since you already have a domain.

Next, you proceed to the 1-month hosting payment

Read a full review on Dreamhost and its advantages here

Transfer your domain

Once you buy your website hosting plan as shown above

You’ll need to transfer your domain to your hosting service

First, go to GoDaddy and change the nameservers to the nameservers of Dreamhost

This might take some minutes to be effective.

Note: you are not transferring your domain since you’ll need to repay the yearly hosting amount

Host your website

Once your domain is transferred you’ll have to host your website and if you have already coded it or if you are going in for cms you will just need to follow the steps

If you are going for a self-coded website you can upload the files using FTP

Or if you want to use a website builder like WordPress you can just install it with a click

Dreamhost also has an integrated website builder that you can use to create your website.

Tips and reminders to start a blog with less than 5$

Go to GoDaddy.com choose an available domain and use the coupon code to buy your domain for one year for 0.99$
Buy the starter plan on Dreamhost for 1.99$ a month valid in other to get started by using my referral link to get the reduction
Transfer your domain from GoDaddy to DreamHost by changing the nameservers
Install your website builder or upload your files through FTP
Enjoy your website

Conclusion

Those are the steps to get started with a website at a very low cost

That is if you want to test it out or just create a website for an event and you don’t want to spend that much money on it then you can just follow those steps

Consider reading the other articles to see some other amazing tips I have got for you

If you have any questions or inquiries about the above procedure just leave a comment or contact me through the form