How to Create a Website like Huffington Post

• 8 Cores Total @ 1.8 GHz
• 8 GB RAM (DDR3)
• 250 GB SSD MLC, RAID 1 (Primary Drive)
• 1 TB 7200 RPM SATA (Backup Drive)
• 5 TB Outbound & FREE Incoming Bandwidth

The server is fully managed. LiquidWeb takes care of everything so you don’t need a degree in Computer Science to get started. Don’t worry about server administration because they have 24/7 phone customer support and will even help you install the SocialPinBoard script on your server.

Email Marketing: $250 per month

Aweber is my favorite email marketing company for people who want to build a website similar to WorldStarHipHop.

Aweber pricing start at $19 per month (get your 1st month for $1) and goes up to $149 per month if you have 10,001 to 25,000 names on your list. I have more than that so it cost me even more. The reason I estimate $250 per month is because your list will likely grow fast if you post good videos on your site.

It’s 7 times harder to acquire a new visitor than to market to an existing one. Place a simple signup form on your website to collect your visitor’s emails. You can also use this subscriber list to generate revenue from advertisers and sponsors in the future.

Content Delivery Network: $100 per month

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is one of the best way to improve website performance. Unlike normal web hosting, where your content is housed on a single server, a CDN takes the website’s static content and replicates it through hundreds of servers around the world instead of a single host at one location. This technology makes sure each visitor to your site gets their data from the city closest to them. By bringing your content closer to your readers’ connection point, your website will have much quicker load times, superior scalability, and guaranteed uptime.

My recommended content delivery is handled by MaxCDN, one of the biggest CDN providers on the Internet. MaxCDN is the content delivery provider for Mashable, Template Monster, BuySellAds and many other big sites.

MaxCDN charges on a pay as you go plan with no long term contract. The first 1,000GB of data transfer cost $39.95 (normal price is $99). After that, you pay 9.9 cents per gig.

Find Staff Writers : $1,000 per month

At some point, you need a team of writers to outsource your content needs. Doing everything is almost impossible in the news business because your content is the most important key to your success. My favorite method for hiring list post writers is TextBroker.

TextBroker is perfect for news portal websites. Here’s how you do it:

1. Create a Textbroker Account
2. Add Funds
3. Create a Project
4. Project gets accepted and writer starts working
5. Writer sends you the final draft for your review
6. Submit any changes and you’re done!

Another strategy is to create a team of writers in Textbroker. Potential candidates will submit to you a writing sample plus reasons why you should let them join. Once you build a team, you can submit projects to team members and one of them will complete it for you.

Make Money

HuffingtonPost generates revenue with banner ads, contextual ads and CPC traffic. They blend ads around content to make money with obstructing their articles.