Laingan.com

My 12-year old niece came to me and told me that school holiday will be coming soon while I was using the Internet. So, any problem with that? She then reminded me to set up a Blog for her as I had promised her a couple of weeks ago. I told her that I was busy at that time and I will set up the Blog for her during her December school holiday.

Wow, kids really have good memory. They can remember things so well especially those promises made by adults. Well, I think I would better keep my promise. Otherwsie, my niece is not going to trust my words anymore.

My niece was asking me whether it is better to use a free web hosting service such as www.blogger.com which is managed by Google or to use a self-hosted Blog like mine. I told her about the pros and cons of having a free hosting. If she chooses to use www.blogger.com, it is a free web hosting service but her domain name will look something like this “www.xxxx.blogspot.com” which is quite long and hard to remember.

She told me that she prefers something like my Blog site entitled “Laingan.com” which is short and simple. However, she hesitated after knowing that my Blog is hosted on a paid web hosting called BlueHost because it needs money to use the hosting service.

Anyway, I told her that I will be paying for her and why she has to worry about the money. Furthermore, a domain name costs around US $8.95 to $10.00 per year and this is something affordable. I can add her domain name to my web hosting server as BlueHost allows its users to host unlimited domain names as well as to host 100 MySQL databases. Meaning to say I can set up 100 WordPress Blogs on a single web hosting.

So, I asked my lovely niece to choose her favourite WordPress theme first and then think of an easy-to-remember domain name later. Once she has her favourite domain name in mind and I’ll start to buy a domain name from the domain name registrar for her. After all this is done, I can proceed to set up a WordPress Blog for her very soon. Stay tuned.