Just got me a domain and some hosting

I've been thinking about making a proper website for awhile now, but I'm not a huge spender, the thought of buying something I really know nothing about put me off a little, but I thought what the heck, I learn best when I'm thrown in the deep end.

Buying some hosting and a domain name.

This is what I just did, well a day ago. I went looking for hosting packages and it was tough, there are so many out there it's almost painful, it certainly did my head in. In the end I picked one from the tabs I had open which was Hostgator, seemed to have a good rep with all that I had read in searching, so I went with it.

I purchased the baby plan, shared server I think, which cost me about a 120 bucks for a years hosting plus 15 bucks for a domain name for a year.

I could have bought the domain name cheaper somewhere else and pointed it to the server (or something like that).

Now all I have to do is wait for my domain name to be propagated (activated I guess) across the web and I'll be ready to do a whole lot more reading. You have to wait a couple days before you can even start working on or even seeing your new website, well you could work on the site, but it's a little hard not seeing what your doing.

Right now, the idea of the whole thing I have and judging by the options available to me in my hosting control panel it shouldn't be to different from using blogger, though it looks like it'll be a whole lot easier to control and manage. They have many packages that you can install, including Wordpress, which hopefully I'll use to learn it all, not to different from blogger.

I'll keep y'all updated on the experience, I know I have a lot of blogging friends that may find this info useful.