GET STARTED WITH YOUR OWN WEBSITE
I will not waste your time with unnecessary information. Yes! You can and run a website for as little as $12 per year. In order to maintain an online website presence at this amount you will use a combination of domain hosting and blogging service. A regular blogging service would provide you with an online address but your chosen name would be attached to the blogging service name. This should not be a deal breaker for someone that want a specific name without an extension. The address provided to you by the blogging service could be redirected to a preferred domain name of your choice using the google domain service. Take for instance, I am using a blogger application which is available for free to write an article. Yet, the article is displayed under my website name without a blogger extension such as in mywebsite.blogger.com . As you can see blogger.com part of the address was totally absent in the address that directs readers to this page. That is made possible by the redirecting options available in the blogger application. In essence, you are able to run a blog page as a website as long as you have a dedicated domain name. Making your website using these two services Opened a blog account- if you have a Gmail you can start using the blogger application by choosing it from the google app and logging in using the log in credentials for your google mail account. For those that use other email account types such as yahoo mail or Hotmail get a blogger account by visiting https://www.blogger.com/. Once you are on blogger use it to create messages that you want to display on your website and adjust setting to fit your website needs. Using the settings and options provided in the blogger application, redirect your blogger address to a domain name of your choice which could be purchase for as low as $12 from google domain service through blogger. A small business owner, or website enthusiast could follow similar approach to maintain a web presence with a $12 yearly payment.