Here are the components of doing everything on your own:
1) You need to acquire the domain; that means, to have it officially recognized that “snowsage4444 . com” legally belongs to you. That costs about 10 dollars a year, and it allows you to create web pages like “snowsage4444 . com / welcome .html” or e-mails like “snowsage4444 @ snowsage4444 . com”. What it actually does is that when anyone on the internet says “snowsage4444 . com”, they will be redirected to a computer of your choice. But for this all to actually work, you also need...
2) A computer that is connected to internet 24 hours a day, 7 hours a week. That is usually someone else’s computer, and they will give you a directors in it, where you can put your pages, pictures, programs, etc. This is called web hosting, and usually also comes with an e-mail service. The costs… can depend a lot, basically on how many gigabytes of space you need, on which programming languages do you want to have installed there, how much are you willing to pay extra for security or reliability, etc. For example, I pay about 100 dollars a year, but it could be much cheaper. (I am a programmer, so I want to experiment there with some things.)
3) Okay, so you have a computer connected to the internet, and whoever types in your e-mail or web address, is sent to that computer. Now, in case of web addresses, what will be waiting for them there? For a passive web site, you can just put there a few text files, and it’s done. If you want some interaction, such as posting comments below your articles, you will need a program. There are some free programs available, such as WordPress, but then you have to learn how to use them.
...or you can use an existing service, such as Fanfiction . Net and avoid all these problems. You will have less freedom and flexibility, but those come with a price.
You could also use a less specialized service, for example instead of “something to post fan fiction” you will use “something to post articles”, i.e. a generic blogging or CMS software. You may lose some functionality, but gain more choice in the remaining things.
It seems like for you it would be safest to go with “whatever requires least configuration”, that is using either Fanfiction . Net or some free blogging platform that is already installed there, where you just need to create an account and start posting.
By the way, you are free to change your mind later, and move the stories to a new place, if you decide so.
Here are the components of doing everything on your own:
1) You need to acquire the domain; that means, to have it officially recognized that “snowsage4444 . com” legally belongs to you. That costs about 10 dollars a year, and it allows you to create web pages like “snowsage4444 . com / welcome .html” or e-mails like “snowsage4444 @ snowsage4444 . com”. What it actually does is that when anyone on the internet says “snowsage4444 . com”, they will be redirected to a computer of your choice. But for this all to actually work, you also need...
2) A computer that is connected to internet 24 hours a day, 7 hours a week. That is usually someone else’s computer, and they will give you a directors in it, where you can put your pages, pictures, programs, etc. This is called web hosting, and usually also comes with an e-mail service. The costs… can depend a lot, basically on how many gigabytes of space you need, on which programming languages do you want to have installed there, how much are you willing to pay extra for security or reliability, etc. For example, I pay about 100 dollars a year, but it could be much cheaper. (I am a programmer, so I want to experiment there with some things.)
3) Okay, so you have a computer connected to the internet, and whoever types in your e-mail or web address, is sent to that computer. Now, in case of web addresses, what will be waiting for them there? For a passive web site, you can just put there a few text files, and it’s done. If you want some interaction, such as posting comments below your articles, you will need a program. There are some free programs available, such as WordPress, but then you have to learn how to use them.
...or you can use an existing service, such as Fanfiction . Net and avoid all these problems. You will have less freedom and flexibility, but those come with a price.
You could also use a less specialized service, for example instead of “something to post fan fiction” you will use “something to post articles”, i.e. a generic blogging or CMS software. You may lose some functionality, but gain more choice in the remaining things.
It seems like for you it would be safest to go with “whatever requires least configuration”, that is using either Fanfiction . Net or some free blogging platform that is already installed there, where you just need to create an account and start posting.
By the way, you are free to change your mind later, and move the stories to a new place, if you decide so.