It has been over 2 years since I started as a website builder and since have had many difficulties in making a good website. Here is my experience!
1. No Understanding
I started out with everything possible. Tried everything in reach but, in vain.
And thus, tried many things such as:
- Weebly
- Wix
- WordPress.com
- Joomla!
- Jimdo
And after a looooong time, I got to know, WordPress was the right choice. .ORG was better than .COM!
Learning WordPress
My first live website ran the same WordPress theme for over one year till I switched to WordPress.org and still, it ran on another theme till it’s end, six months later.
Finding Hosting For Free!
I had only hosted sites on facilities such as Wix, WordPress.com and Weebly etc. And it was my first time that I was going to host my website out of these facilities.
I looked for over 2 months and thus finally found free hostings.
Security And Speed
I had developed considerable amount of followers and my website design wasn’t too bad either. The only thing I worried about was the SSL and thus, on zero budget it was hard to get it as well.
Cloudflare: The Secret Behind My Encrypted Websites!
And THANK GOD, I found CloudFlare. This was the all in one solution for me.
They provided these services for free: CDN, SSL, and other security related things. Even this website has CloudFlare enabled!
Speed: CDN And Hosting Go Hand-in-Hand
Speed was my first concern after getting ssl. Thankfully, for me, the owner of FCS Hosting Solutions (the hosting I use for websites) turned out to be my friend. And my friendship got me faster hosting for free
Of course CloudFlare CDN is not bad.
