How to host .np website for free?

Well, I am going to share 3 good news for you in this blog:

You can register your website for free (See my blog How to register .np domain for free)
You can host your website for free (Will explain in this blog)
You can host your own website in one of the most trusted platform provided by Google ie. blogger.com (You can use your domain name instead of yourdomain.blogspot.com)

Yes, you got it right. If you are passionate about a particular topic and want to blog about it or want to create a blog for fun, more importantly if you are hesitant about spending money to do so, then you are in the right place. In my previous blog, I have explained how you can Get your website domain name for free. In this article I am going to explain how you can host it for free.

Hosting your website in simple terms means to purchase web space where you can place your blogs, images, videos etc. to be displayed on your website. Even if you want to show just your name in your website, you need to subscribe web hosting services and it can be both paid or free. In this blog I am going to specifically explain how you can host your .np domain for free on blogger.com. (Why to choose blooger.com as blogging platform) In my other blog, I will mention few other hosting providers which will provide you limited web hosting for free.

So, Let's get started. I would like to keep it short and summarize on following points. After you have registered .np website follow the follow steps:

1) Go to blogger.com

2) Sign in with your existing Gmail ID (Create one if you do not have already)

3) Create a new blog

4) Provide blog name that resembles with your free .np domain name

5) Login to your domain registrar ie. regiter.com.np

6) Edit DNS of your domain to ns1.he.net and ns2.he.net (Wait for it to get approved - May take upto 1 day) - See screenshot below

7) After the nameserver change is approved , Go to dns.he.net and register with your details

he.net (Hurricane Electric Internet Services) is an internet service provider that provides free services for editing your DNS details and lot of other services)

8) Login to dns.he.net and go to Zone Functions > Add a new domain add your .np domain - See screenshot below

9) Goto Blogger.com > Settings menu

10) Goto Publishing and click on custom domain - See screenshot below

11) Add your .np domain preceded by www ie. www.yourdomain.com.np

12) An error message will be displayed showing which two 'cname' to provide in dns.he.net - See screenshot below

13) Goto dns.he.net> Quick Links> Free DNS, edit your website and add two 'cname' details as mentioned in the error message - See screenshot below

14) Goto https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1233387 and create 4 'A' records as mentioned in the thread and edit your website details in dns.he.net like step 13 -See screenshot below

15) Click on 'Check Delegation' on top right area - if everything is ok it shows success message

16) Now try opening your website www.yourname.com.np in browser - it should open your blog

17) Also you need to go to Blogger.com > Settings > Publishing > Fallback subdomain and just write your domain name i.e 'yourdomain' and click on save. (without doing this your website won't open unless you provide www in the beginning i.e only www.yourdomain.com.np will open and not 'yourdomain.com.np' ) - See in screenshot below

That's it. You are done. Now you have successfully hosted your own website on blooger.com. You can start writing blogs and show it on your own website right away. Though the process may seem a bit long but follow the steps one by one and you can do it under 10-15 minutes.

Note: This procedures was working till September 2020. There might be changes in the procedure while you may be reading this. . You may need to do accordingly.

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