The Older Geek

Several of you have mentioned either moving to your own self-hosted WordPress blogs or transferring your old Blogger blogs to a WordPress blog. Others of you have asked me how I make money online. I thought I would address both of these questions because they are related. One of the main ways I earn my [...]

I have been with Hostgator for over four years now. I have never been so happy with a company. When I was with other web hosting services, I had quite the stressful times when my websites were frequently down. One company would disable ALL my websites if the traffic on one of them spiked! It [...]

This is Part 4 in the How Do I Get a Blog? series. You’ve bought a domain name, a web host, you’ve inspected the cPanel. Now it’s time to take the next step– How To Issue Name Servers for Your Domain. Remember, your domain name is separate from your hosting account. You purchase your domain [...]

This is Part 3 in the How Do I Get a Blog? series. Once you have acquired and purchased your domain name, and acquired and purchased your web hosting service, you can access your web hosting account and files from something called your cPanel. According to my handy dandy Glossary of Blogging Terms, a cPanel [...]