Point a Domain Name
You have a domain name.
You have web hosting.
You want to “connect” or point your domain name to your web hosting account. And then start building your website.
Neat.
We’ll see how to do that in this article.
Just one small digression though. I sometimes see beginners asking on forums whether they need web hosting in order to create a website. Some of them tend to think that a domain name is all that is needed for a website. Let’s clear the confusion before we venture ahead.
Well, you do need web hosting. Your website is in reality a collection of web pages (or files). In order to keep these website files and make them accessible to anyone on the internet, you need space on a web server. A web server is a powerful computer that is connected to the internet 24×7 often through high bandwidth infrastructure. This space on a web server is provided to you by web hosting companies.
A domain name is just a name, nothing more.
However, there are free blogging and other services like wordpress.com, Tumblr and Blogger that allow you to create a blog or a site on their own web servers.… ...Continue Reading
