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Web Hosting for Frugal Authors

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Your website is one of your most critical book marketing assets. It’s where you manage your online reputation, grow your email list, and sell books. But before you build a website, you need web hosting.
You have thousands of web hosting options, which can feel a bit overwhelming. How do you know what kind of host you need for your website?
In this week’s episode, you’ll discover

What a web host does for your website
Which kind of web hosting is best for authors (and which to avoid!)
How much you should (or shouldn’t) spend on web hosting

If you’ve been wanting to build a website or have considered switching web hosts, listen in or check out the blog post version of this episode for some recommendations on finding the best service for your situation.

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Chapters

1. Web Hosting for Frugal Authors (00:00:00)

2. What is Hosting (00:00:55)

3. Free Hosting Problems (00:01:27)

4. Proprietary Hosting Issues (00:03:16)

5. WordPress Benefits (00:05:07)

6. Shared Hosting Explained (00:05:40)

7. Managed Hosting (00:09:22)

8. VPS Hosting Overview (00:12:00)

9. Domain Names (00:13:25)

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