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Creating your own website is an extremely satisfying endeavor, especially as a budding blogger or a new business. However, the path to creating a website can be overwhelming and confusing, particularly for cash-strapped, first-time builders. There are many options to consider, including your potential site’s domain name, server type, and server operating system.

Unfortunately, web hosting services tack-on many add-ons features during the checkout process that makes building a site an even more complex and expensive affair. Follow these tips to avoid those add-on charges and lower your hosting costs.

1. You Don’t Need an Annual Hosting Contract

Web hosting services always present their best rates first, with the prices corresponding to annual or multi-year contracts. An attractive…

On a cursory scan of its website and Instagram page, Mighty White Soap Co might look like an innocuous, cutesy personal care brand, albeit one with an arguably archaic and tone-deaf name. But a closer look turns up some offbeat offerings mixed in among its seasonal designs, colorful swirls, and floral patterns, like a soap embedded with glow-in-the-dark letters that read CIA. And a review of all their product names reveals a disconcerting mélange of unremarkable odor monikers (“Autumn Caress”), strange references to obscure far-right memes (“Clown World”), and an apparent fixation on white consumers (“Morally White,” “Caucasian Abrasion”).

The Mighty White Soap Co website does not have a traditional “About” page, or even a quick list of company values. But a deep…