A Homemaker’s Diary

I have been approached many too often by friends and people on how to buy their own domain name, set up their website or blog on paid web hosting, simply because they are interested to earn money from blogging. I applaud their intention as it shows that they are serious in their attempt to get money and extra moolah from ads on their own website or writing paid posts like what I’ve done in many of my blogs for the past one year.

What they have to know is what they actually need. In reality there are a lot of choices of web hosting resources. Will you be sharing files and videos on your website? What will be your niche for your blog? These needs will dictate how many space you will need to buy for the hosting plan. Either 50GB or 250GB, it will be up to the usage of disc space you need. If you would like to share cooking videos for example, then you will need at least 250GB and a lot of bandwidth. If you are only going to upload pictures to spice up your blog entries (like I do) perhaps 50GB would be enough in the long run.

Make sure you read around and check other people’s reviews on the hosting solutions performance. You wouldn’t want to lose your visitors simply because the cheapest web hosting provider always have downtimes. If you want to maintain everything on your own, then the choice between Linux / Unix or Windows web hosting providers will be something you have to think as well.

If you check the Web Hosting directory on webhostingsources.com, you will realize that you have so much to know about before you decide which is the best for your plan. For example if you go for providers like 1stHostWeb, Host Ultra or Mister.Net, you can get free Linux/Unix web hosting account or some with special terms and conditions or initial set up fee but sometimes these free accounts will include pop up and pop over ads in your website pages which honestly I feel really annoying.

Whereas if you opt for Windows web hosting providers, you can get affordable price from as low as $12.00 per month. Some even can give you less on a yearly plan only. Of course when it comes to Windows web hosting, the cost you have to bear will be higher than Linux/Unix affordable web hosting due to the additional fees for the operating system. Usually these Windows web hosting providers offer you features such as Microsoft Access, Active Server Pages (ASP), Microsoft FrontPage, Cold Fusion, Microsoft SQL Server 7, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and more.

If you are a newbie in the arena of blogging, gather as much as information before you commit to one year plan to any web hosting provider. Not all people will be diligent enough to update and maintain blog so in the end all those money you spend will be a waste before you could even reap the monetizing benefit of blogging. Read useful articles shared on the website of webhostingsources.com so that you will know what to expect when you are buying your own domain and web hosting plan and later maintaining it. Good luck and hopefully your main aim to blog for money will be achieved soon!

*This is a paid post*

Somehow I’m thinking of this song when the weather outside is in such a heavy downpour, sigh..another evening of gloomy day. Anyway, to all TKC girls (at least my batch of 9296), do you girls still remember when Mrs Ho taught us to sing this song while she played the piano in the music room?

Here is the lyrics for those who feel like singing along. Those dancers at the back are so retro, huh!

*This post is written for Buzzfuse.com*

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As much as I hate to be in a hot sunny day, the gloomy, rainy day makes it worse. Plus PMS always make me want to cry, so it gives a good reason to watch sad movie, TV series with sad moments, or listen to sad old songs. At least it won’t look ridiculous when I suddenly go tearing my eyes blind with no particular reason to sob..ceh!

As of now, I’m waiting for Hubby to come home since I feel really lazy to cook dinner. Plus Hubby will be on leave tomorrow, so I can take my hands off from the cooking utensils as well.

The good part of the day today was when my client likes this bunga dip lily with the additional ribbon. Somehow the initial design is too bare for my eyes, so I thought the ribbon will cheer up the whole bunch. Doesn’t matter if it adds up to the material cost or extra work for me to do the ribbon, what is important is it could help brighten the wedding event.

I’m supposed to complete 300 pieces of these blue bunga dip petals because the client is going to take the completed orders of bunga dip lily by middle of February.

And I have completed 150 pieces of the white petals for leaves despite my effort to procrastinate further..heh!

But then despite the fact that the order is due soon, I manage to drag myself from the task and read this..huhu!

What a joy to immerse myself in fiction world..hehe!