Domains & Hosting Subdomains What is it 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 […]
Domains & Hosting Specifying and Changing Nameservers 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 […]
Domains & Hosting DNS Settings Overview 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 […]
Domains & Hosting What is Hosting 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 […]
Domains & Hosting What is a Domain What is a domain? 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 […]
