| Re: Domain hosted here. Website elsewhere. How to do? |
| by jdseymour on 2005/9/20 1:03:11 Another solution would be, if your Domain Provider does not supply a control panel so you can manage your domain, would be to get the provider to point the DNS to one of the following DNS management servers, then you can have control of the name to point it where you choose. See these services: EveryDNS.net and ZoneEdit.com HTH. |
| Re: Domain hosted here. Website elsewhere. How to do? |
| by gestroud on 2005/9/19 23:11:59 Quote:
1. yes 2. yes 3. yes At least that's the way it works here in the U.S. Going by LazyBadger's reply, it may work differently elsewhere. |
| Re: Domain hosted here. Website elsewhere. How to do? |
| by gestroud on 2005/9/19 23:06:24 Here's how it works: I have most of my sites registered with Aplus.net because they were charging $5.00 for domain registration. They automatically associated my domains with their name servers [(example) ns1.abc.com, ns2.abc.com ], which I don't want because I used another company, ForExampleHosting.com, to host my sites (they charged more for registration.) After registration was complete, I went into Aplus.net's Client Control Panel where I have the ability to designate what name server I want to use. Once I know the names of the name servers that ForExampleHosting.com has set my sites on, I'm ready to go. (You have to get the information from them. It will be something like dns1.forexamplehost.com, dns2.forexamplehost.com or ns1forexamplehost.com, ns2.forexamplehost.com.) If your Registrar has a control panel for its customers, you would look for the section that allows you to manage your domain name servers and change your server names to the new ones. If they don't provide a control panel, you'll have to contact them with the information. |
| Re: Domain hosted here. Website elsewhere. How to do? |
| by LazyBadger on 2005/9/19 22:31:18 No... As most of explanation it's terrible mix of errors, misinterpretation and god know that alse... If you want see to see full picture, it will be long story, and we must start from theoretical basics |
| Re: Domain hosted here. Website elsewhere. How to do? |
| by Peekay on 2005/9/19 21:22:19 Thx guys, so is this right?  If I register 'mysite.com' with my registrar and let them host the site, my DNS record for that domain shows: dns0.myregistrar.net dns2.myregistrar.net these are the two nameservers on their network that point incoming requests for 'mysite.com' to a folder on one of their own web servers. If I wanted the site hosted elsewhere, my registrar would simply change the DNS record for 'mysite.com' to show, e.g. dns0.newwebhost.com dns1.newwebhost.com and it would be up to the new web host to configure these (their) nameservers to direct requests to the right folder on their web server. So for me to buy web hosting *only* I just need to: 1) Tell the web host the domain name I plan to use for the web space. 2) Ask them for their nameserver details and 3) Give those details to my domain registrar. |
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