Purchasing hosting involves a transaction that could be a little bothering for a beginner. And, you might be looking for trusted assistance.
The steps to purchase hosting from Bluehost is simple, and it takes less than 5 minutes if everything goes error-free (but, avoid doing it in rush).
You can do it even from your mobile devices.
Once you have purchased, the successful purchase screen will look like:
I choose Bluehost for 10 major reasons which I have shared in my Bluehost Review article.
Also, during my blogging mentorship, I have guided 50+ blogging beginners from all over the world to successfully purchase Bluehost hosting and domain name.
So, let’s dive into steps to purchase Bluehost hosting for your dream website or blog.
Step 1: Visit Bluehost
Bluehost.com is limited to two payment methods that involves credit and PayPal.
Therefore, a lot of Indian users expressed their inability to use Bluehost due to payment option limitations. So, Bluehost.in was set up!
Here’s the link: Bluehost website
Both of them have the same interface, design, and rates are almost the same. Bluehost.in users can choose US-based servers, otherwise Indian servers.
On visiting to the Bluehost website click on “Start Building or Get Started” Button.
Chose the Basic Plan of Shared Hosting, as it is the best choice for blogging beginners or for basics business website.
Upgrade as you grow!
After choosing the hosting plan, you will get a panel as shown below to check the availability of your Domain Name.
Write the domain name you want to purchase.
Remember the 4 points while writing the domain name;
- No space
- No capital alphabets
- Choose extension from the drop-down
- You can use numbers. For example, 1millionblogs.com
If your domain name is available, you will see something like this (shown below) with a form.
Step 2: Fill in the Form & Pay Amount
After you click “Next” in step 1, you will land on a website page with a Bluehost form:
2.1. Account Information:
Enter all details such as your First name, Last name, Business name (optional), Country, Street Address, City, State, ZIP code, Phone number, Email Address.
Note: Double check email address & phone number
2.2. Package Information:
In the Account Plan option, you get to choose the duration (12 months, 24 and 36-month package). Rates are written below it.
The primary domain name (plus its registration) and the SSL comes free along with it.
2.3. Package Extras:
Few extra services from the Bluehost are made available to ensure that hosting works risk-free and secure.
Domain Privacy Protection helps to keep your personal details (phone number and email) attached to this domain name hidden from scammers. Tick this to choose.
Codeguard Basic helps you by keeping a regular backup of your website. Useful feature, tick to choose it. (as a beginner you can untick, purchase it anytime later as your website grows)
Bluehost SEO tools provide SEO-related features to help in ranking. Useful feature, but there are other free tools like SEO Yoast and RankMath that we can use as long as we are in the beginning phase.
Talking about the SSL; the free SSL certificate that you get along with the Bluehost Hosting is a shared SSL certificate. So, Bluehost provides you with Single Domain SSL that will work only for your domain. However, it’s not necessary for a blogging website. A free SSL certificate is fine as long as you don’t have any payment option on your website.
Other services such as SiteLock Security help to protect from Malware and hackers. Good for the website but you can ignore (untick) if it’s out of your budget.
Recommended: Tick domain privacy + protection and untick all others
2.4. Payment Information:
For Bluehost.com, use credit card or PayPal for payment.
In case you are using Bluehost India, you can choose PayU, and submit. After that you will see the following options as shown below:
Choose the option convenient to you, pay, and proceed to the next step.
Note: Read and tick the terms and Policy agreements before clicking on the “Submit” button.
Bluehost is a reputed hosting company in the World. So, they have good and fair terms and policy
Step 3: Create Password & Login
So far you have entered the details like name, phone number, address, email, etc, but have not yet created a password or username. So, let’s do that now.
Click on “Create Account“.
Enter the domain name that you just purchase with Bluehost Hosting, and create a password.
- Use numbers and symbols
- Use capital and small alphabet
- Include special symbol
- Don’t make too short a password
Enter the domain name and password (that you just created) and click on Log in.
Great! You will be successfully logged in.
Step 4: Answer Initial Bluehost Questions
Since you are logging in for the first time, Bluehost will ask you a few questions to know your vision and motive behind purchasing Bluehost hosting plan, to help and assist you.
The screenshot below shows you the questions. Answer as per your convenience.
You get a skip button as well!
Bluehost will ask you “How would you like to build your website?” And, it will give you two options.
It’s highly recommended to choose WordPress with limitless optimization.
Answer the other questions as shown below:
Step 5: Bluehost Basic & WordPress
After answering those basic one-time questions of Bluehost, you will land on Bluehost Home page, which looks like this (shown below).
You would very easily grab all the setting options in Bluehost hosting, cPanel, Domains, and other sites related settings.
Since, we would be building your blog using WordPress, so let’s know how exactly you can get into WordPress from your Bluehost panel.
Click on “Login Into WordPress” to launch your WordPress.
Security Tip: Enable Two-Step Authentication to secure your Bluehost account.
Final Words
If have you have successfully purchased the hosting. Congratulations!!
If you have encountered any difficulty, mention in the comments, and I will be glad to help you out! Or reach me out at LinkedIn.
With hosting and domain name, you would be starting your blogging journey. Patience and consistency are two key tips to become a successful blogger.
IF YOU ARE STILL CONFUSED?
GET A MENTOR!
Slowly is the fastest way to achieve success.
In the next post, we will learn more about Bluehost hosting options.
Good luck! Happy Blogging!
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1. Which is the Best Hosting for Blogging website?
Bluehost is the best hosting option for a blogging website. The steps to buying a Bluehost hosting are easy, and its UI/UX is amazingly simple. Another option you can try is Hostgator. However, I don’t recommend GoDaddy hosting as their customer support and technicality are very poor.
Q2. What is the difference between Bluehost.com and Blueost.in
Bluehost.com is USA-based company that offers hosting and other internet services. Since it only accepts credit cards and PayPal, therefore many Indian users were finding it difficult to use it.
Hence, Bluehost India was set up with several payment options like PhonePay, GooglePay, UPI, EMI, Wallet, Debit card, etc.
These two have separate organizational teams that manage them. The support team is different. However quality of service and platform interface are same.
Q3. How to buy Bluehost hosting? (in short)
Here are the steps you need to follow to purchase Bluehost India hosting.
- Visit Bluehost India Website
- Click on the “Start Building” button in WordPress-made easy section.
- Enter the domain name you wish to purchase to check its availability.
- Once you find a domain name, fill the form with all the correct detail. Check or change PACKAGE, select the payment option, tick the privacy policy guidelines, and submit to proceed.
- Make the payment with the selected method.
- Create a password once successfully purchased.
- Login with the newly created password, and answer some initial question Bluehost ask or skip.
- You are successfully done with Bluehost hosting.