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In the first part of this series, I looked at Paypal, as a means of transferring money to other people, and also to receive money as income. I said that this tool was essential if you as a young entrepreneur wanted to become a mogul on the internet. Let me tell you that this is true, and this next article will show you how valuable this payment system is on the net.

When starting up in the real world, and when you are old enough to become self-dependant you need a house to live in as shelter and a subsequent address that comes with the property. The World Wide Web is exactly the same, except that your house is referred to as “hosting” and your address is referred to as your “domain name”. To broaden your knowledge, let me give you a definition of each from Wikipedia:

Domain: A name that is entered into a computer (e.g. as part of a Web site or other URL, or an e-mail address) and then looked up in the global Domain Name System which informs the computer of the IP address(es) with that name.
Hosting: A service that provides individuals, organizations and users with online systems for storing information, images, video, or any content accessible via the Web.

Now you may have already tried looking for a domain that you want to buy, but doing a Google search just brings up tons and tons of websites offering to sell you domains for a cheap price. So where do you go? I’ll give you a run-down of a few of the companies I would recommend you get your Domain Name from:

• NameCheap
• Go Daddy
• Dotster
• 1and1

But once you’ve chosen your special address (and in my opinion its best to get a .com domain) then how do you pay for it? This is where Paypal comes in. You can send money from your Paypal balance, from your credit card or from your bank account without having to type in all the numbers - Paypal remembers it all for you!

The same story applies to hosting except the choices for buying this “housing” are a little more complicated. For a startup site however, I would recommend getting the smallest packages many companies offer.
For example, my favourite host without a doubt would have to be Frozen Webhost. The owner Steve is extremely reliable and even as I speak right now - he is Online on my MSN, which means whenever I have a problem I can let him know, and he sorts out everything for me. His smallest package offers:

10GB Bandwidth - The amount of information your visitors can download from your site in 1 month, like pages and images.

1GB Diskspace - The amount of information you can actually store on your hosting account.
Unlimited Email Addresses - The amount of email addresses you can create.
Unlimited SQL Databases - The amount of Forums, Blogs and Other cool stuff you can host and create.

For a beginning website which will have not that much traffic this is perfect, and it has certainly been enough for me for Blogtrepreneur.
Other hosts include:

• Dreamhost
• HostGator
• BlurStorm

In my opinion these are the only hosts that you will ever need. The important thing to look for in a good host is customer support. If they have good reviews and deal with you as a customer well - then you will be more personally attached to the people and so will be more likely to stay with them throughout your stay on the internet.
Hopefully these services should be adament for the young entrepreneur wishing to buy domains and hosting, but please let me know if you think I have missed anything out.

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