On Oct 4, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
In my case it looks as if wananchi.com serve three roles - web
hosting, DNS service and registration service.
Zoneedit seem to offer free, basic web hosting as well as DNS. If
I decided to go that route ('cos I'm a _really_ cheap bastard ;-) )
would I need to deal with wananchi.com (as the current registration
service provider) OR with Tucows (the registrar) OR with both of
them ?
There are only a few actual registrars for domain names. In this
case, wananchi.com acted as a reseller for tucows, which is very
common. I guess your choice depends on how comfortable and satisfied
you are with a company; a couple of bucks in the fee isn't as
important. I switched to GoDaddy years ago because I wasn't happy
with Network Solutions: their prices were way too high, and their
service sucked. Since then GoDaddy has grown incredibly, and their
website can be a little annoying, but I haven't had any problems with
them at all. I needed to transfer a domain I was managing for a
company to someone else, and it was pretty painless.
Once the domain is registered, you need to figure out how you're
going to serve it: either on your own machines, or hosted at an ISP
or colo site. This is a much more important choice than the others,
since it holds the most variability. Make sure that the host has the
capabilities you need.
Finally, you have to tie the two together via DNS. If you go with
something like ZoneEdit for your hosting, well, it's a no-brainer to
use them for DNS too.
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