Dns Settings For My Domain Name And Website ?

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I have a personal website on a free web host.
I have also registered a domain name with another company.
How do I put the DNS settings right, in both the host and the registrar’s websites, to point the domain name to my website?
There are many settings and I don’t understand what’s going on.
Thanks for your help!

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"Dns Settings For My Domain Name And Website ?" was posted on Friday, September 18th, 2009 at 8:35 am.

2 Responses to “Dns Settings For My Domain Name And Website ?”

Brian R(2009-09-18):

The best way to do this is with a CNAME DNS setting. It is a single setting that is easy to set up. Companies like Network Solutions and EasyDNS and GoDaddy let you do this, with no extra charge, in their DNS control panel. You input the host name on your domain (like www) and tell it what actual website http://www.yourdomain.com should connect people to.
Here is the tricky part. Your free hosting provider has to set their stuff up so that when someone connects to http://www.yourdomain.com it can show your pages. Most free hosting providers DO NOT do this, even though they should so that they can keep generating ad revenue with your site.
Even if your hosting provider doesn’t do this there are some that do. I think that http://www.hostultra.com/freehosting.htm… still does, as an example. Just make sure that, if you switch to another free hosting service, they support CNAME redirection.
Another option is a redirect. You could point your CNAME record to a free service like Google Pages and have your Google Page redirect anyone who connects to http://www.yourdomain.com to your free hosting pages. This has the disadvantage that a person entering http://www.yourdomain.com in their browser gets switched over to http://www.yourfreehosting.com/yoursitename when they connect.
Some people might ask – in this case why not just move your site completely to Google Pages? The answer is that Google Pages is still very limited in what you can do with it. Your free hosting provided, and many others, are probably a lot better for you.
Christopher S(2009-09-18):

you’ll have to register your domain name with your web host, if they even allow that.. a lot of free ones don’t. If they do, they will usually put your domain name in their DNS servers and give you the names of those servers. Go to your domain name control panel wherever you registered it, and set your primary DNS servers with the servers that your web host gave you.
All done!