Your Questions About Domain Web Host

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I think you’re wrong when you write, “I was wondering why a lot of webmasters and IT people aren’t in the reseller business.”

In fact, an awful lot of people, including webmasters, IT professionals, and others, are in the hosting and domain reselling business. There are certainly at least “tens of thousands,” and possibly many hundreds of thousands of “web-hosting” businesses out there, most run by people who also do web development work.

Some professionals do this “surreptitiously,” creating an apparently-separate company which they use to register and host client sites. Many do it openly, telling their clients that they own the hosting or registration company.

Those professionals who do NOT resell web-hosting or domain-registration services frequently believe that their sole charge should be based on their time, not on reselling services at potentially inflated prices.

In addition, some professionals choose not to resell anything other than their own services, because they recognize that over time, the level of service at most hosting and registration companies can change.

Over the past 12 years, I’ve hosted my own and clients’ web sites on several dozen different servers (including dedicated servers, colocated servers, and many shared servers), and registered domains with many different registrars. Recently, I consolidated all my registrations to a single registrar, and I also consolidated all hosting to a single provider, but it’s likely that I’ll move some or all of this within 12 months.

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There are webhost who have free intall of wordpress and other scripts on these host a couple of clicks and the install is done.

Then you just find a wordpress theme that you like and upload (ftp) to the theme folder then enable via WP admin I’ve installed wordpress via: http://globedomains.com very easy to do and people can add comments providing it’s enabled i think it is enabled by default but you would have to check

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Refer to:
http://www.threehosts.com/publish

Hope this helps.

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A “registrar” is a company that is allowed to issue internet domain names with ICANN. This service is then sold to consumers in the form of an annual registration fee for a particular domain name. See here for more details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_registrar

Now, it is a common misconception that when you registar a domain name, you “own” that name. In reality when you pay for a domain name, you pay for the rights to use the name and the service the registrar provides to allow you to manage that domain. The the name is “assigned” to you but only authorized registrars can “manage” domain records with ICANN. When you are the assignee for a domain, you have the right to transfer that name to any other registrar you wish (kind of like your cell number). This is protected by regulations. Beware of registrars (other than the one you registered with) that send you emails or snail mail telling you it’s time to renew. This is an underhanded ploy to get you to transfer the management of your assigned domain(s) to their company. If you get communications from a registrar with a different name than yours, look at the fine print.

Now web hosting is a completely different service that may be offered by the same company that your domain is registered through. There is no requirement that you use the same company for both but it is often easier to manage if you have both services at the same company.

There is actually a third service involved in getting a website up which is your authoritative name server. This is *the* dns server that is designated in your root dns record at ICANN as the authority on requests for your domain. Most people use the same company as the registrar to do this but there is certainly no requirement to use the same company. In fact, it’s possible to set up the root authority record to point to your home server and run your website from that same server. You need to have a static IP address and a router that can do port mapping (most do).

BTW, I use godaddy.com as a registrar which is cheap (under $10/year with multi-year discounts) and provides a lot of management features. My DNS is served from zoneedit.com which is free for 5 domain names. My web server is run from my house.