Say you have a new domain and want to have a admin email for it but also don’t want to pay more money through an additional service. Well, SiteGround offers this capability for free with each domain and it is very easy to set up. Additionally, if you don’t want to look at the emails […]
If you purchase your domain from your hosting provider your domain will automatically be pointed to the nameserver your provider has allocated to you. However, there will be many times your clients have either purchased a domain without hosting or purchased a domain from a different provider from their hosting. In fact, from personally experience […]
If you purchase your domain from your hosting provider your domain will automatically be pointed to the nameserver your provider has allocated to you. However, there will be many times your clients have either purchased a domain without hosting or purchased a domain from a different provider from their hosting. In fact, from personally experience […]
Subdomains are domains that are a part of a larger domain. Taking the file analogy we used earlier in this course, if your domain is a folder, then a subdomain is a folder inside of it. In fact, the only domain that is not a subdomain is the root domain. For example course.exam.com is a […]
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a crucial part of the web we use every day. It works transparently in the background, converting human-readable website names into numerical IP addresses that your computer can read and understand. When you purchase your hosting, the IP addresses of your allocated servers are the IP addresses that the […]
What is hosting? Using the same analogy that we used in ‘What is a Domain’, if the internet is the hard drive, and a domain is a folder on that hard drive, then the your hosting is the bit of hard drive space that holds the data for that file. Just like your domain you have to […]
Simply put, your domain name is the name of your website. We will cover it a little more in the article ‘What is Hosting’, but imagine the internet as a hard drive, and this hard dive has an established folder structure starting with a directory with folders called ‘.com’, ‘.net’, ‘.org’, etc. So say I have […]
