cheap domain registering ?

glasgow guy · 17-05-2007, 20:12

as in the title - whos the cheapest to go with...?

SamF · 18-05-2007, 12:14

Well if you get hosting or anything else non-domain related at the same time you can't really beat www.godaddy.com $1.99 domain plus do a quick search on google for godaddy promo codes and you'll find plenty for 10% off - meaning a domain for just under a quid.

If you aren't getting anything at the time then it really depends on the extension, for example one site might be better for .com and another for .co.uk. I have been looking into a .co.uk domain for my site recently and I am currently looking at www.1and1.co.uk it comes to £2.34 a year for a .co.uk domain with an industry standard 2 years minimum - meaning £4.68 for the 2 years.

For a .com domain I went to godaddy as I got it for $1.99 + discount however it still might be worth going there even if it is just for the domain at $8.95. (Minus any discount eg. goox3004at for $2 off or SAVETEN for 10%)

Hope that helped

glasgow guy · 19-05-2007, 13:17

cheers for that..so how much for a domain plus a web site ? or if you but a domain how do you get it to a web site ? - if that makes sense ?

SamF · 19-05-2007, 15:03

Well to have a website you need two things.

1. Hosting - This is where all the files for your website is stored.
2. Domain Name - This is a human-readable address for your website.

Hosting prices vary depending on what you need. Hosting packages contain different things but I am guessing you are new at creating web sites so the main things you need to look at are bandwidth and storage space.

The bandwidth is how much data can be downloaded from the website per month.

For example if you had a very basic 1 page site that had a file size, including any images of 1mb and a bandwidth of 1000mb (1gb) that site could be view 1000 times in a month.

Now obviously this gets more complicated with more pages, different file sizes, same images on different pages, separate file downloads and some pages being viewed more than others but the same principle stays.

Think of bandwidth as a bucket full of water. Everytime a page is viewed, data is downloaded and a little water is poured out. If the page has a larger file size then more water is poured out. Evenutally the water runs out. As a web manager you want to stop that happening, so make sure the hosting package you have has enough bandwidth for what it is going to be used for.

Domain names are simply the address of the hosting, it tells the web browser where to look to see the site.

I use godaddy for my hosting. For the economy hosting package with 5 GB and 250GB bandwidth and a .com domain it costs £20.74 with a 10% discount applied (use the promo code "TENOFF") for a years hosting. You can pay for hosting by the month and that is $3.99 per month for the economy package.

glasgow guy · 19-05-2007, 15:11

thanks....