This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Nexx Online. All opinions are 100% mine.
Most bloggers start off working on free hosted platforms such as Blogger.com and WordPress.com, but to be honest everyone dreams of moving on to their own hosted blog some day or the other because of the amount of freedom and flexibility that it gives to you in aspects such as design (this is probably one of the biggest draws of having your own hosted blog), the type of content that you can host, the features that you can add, et al. And more often than not, the biggest barrier is the fairly daunting initial bill that you’ve to fork out to get your own domain and hosting. Quite rightfully, a lot of you in this position feel apprehensive about investing money into such a bold move because you don’t know whether you can sustain paying for your blog – indeed, whether you’d even be interested enough in blogging to continue wanting to pay bills.
So precisely for folks like you, Nexx.com’s limited time offer of Unlimited Web Hosting with free domain name for just $10 is a don’t-miss opportunity. What do you get for your 10 bucks? You own domain name for free (with free ‘private registration’ that usually costs an extra $10 with most other companies), unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited number of email accounts (with 500 MB storage space per email account). If this is the first time you’re getting started with blogging – and many of you might be – Nexx.com makes the learning curve easy for you by including the standard one-click install solutions for popular software such as WordPress, along with easy web-based management interface. Help is within easy reach with 24/7 email and phone support. You also get freebies thrown in such as free Google and Facebook advertising credits worth $50 each. To redeem this offer, use the promotional code ‘SPARK10′ when placing your order.
The account is not stunted as far as features go. You’ve support for PHP4/5, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, 30 MySQL databases, SSH access. You also have support for IonCube – which provides extra security to PHP scripts running on your site. As far as technical features go, you can use this not only for a blog but also to pilot any other site or web-based service. Sure, the $10 you pay is just for the first year (and this offer is being made because Nexx rebranded its hosting service recently) because from year 2 onwards you’ll have to pay the standard price which is around $70 per year – but this a very fair price for the features that you’re getting. You’ll be hard-pressed to find better deals with other hosts.
Putting the ‘unlimited’ tag on any web hosting plan is usually a marketing gimmick, since no host can truly provide you unlimited resources. However, one thing that does set Nexx apart from many others who claim to offer ‘unlimited’ plans is that they use a clustered hosting environment, which (in theory) can scale up or down the amount of resources allocated to your account – so that traffic spikes can’t knock out your blog/site.
I’ll be honest – I love the deal that they’re offering but I won’t be shifting myself since I’m already tied in to a multi-year hosting deal. As I spoke earlier, I’m fairly happy with my host but at times traffic surges do slow my site down horribly because it’s not hosted on a clustered / (virtual) dedicated server. The audience that will find Nexx.com’s limited-time offer appealing will be first-time webmasters who want to graduate on to self-hosting blogs and such. $10 for domain and hosting is dirt cheap – and this is a perfect opportunity to jump on to the bandwagon without sinking too much money. If you like the flexibility of self-hosting (and you probably will!), you get a really good deal for consequent years too.
