Thinking about finally having my domain hosted, but I have some questions...

[Hooobi]

Not sure if I'm posting this in the right place.

I registered a domain for 1 yr with godaddy.com and am thinking of having it hosted at readyhosting.com. A few questions come to mind and I couldn't find answers on readyhosting's site so... I turn to the net's prime receptacle of tech knowledge, the AT forums...

my questions:

1. if I transfer my domain to the host (I believe I have to), will that affect the term of my registration?

2. if I transfer my domain to the host, will I have to renew through the host from now on? if so, should I sign up for an additional 3 years at godaddy before transferring so it will be cheaper?

3. if I want to have other domains redirect to this one, what's the cheapest/best way to do that?

Any other relavant advice is appreciated.

Thanks!

H

 

[khtm]

Hope this helps, Hooobi:

1) No, it will not affect your registration. You just need to e-mail godaddy.com and tell them to redirect the Name Servers to those of readyhosting.com. Or if readyhosting doesn't have their own Name Servers, see #3.

2) You can renew your domain with any registrar. If godaddy is the cheapest, go with them.

3) Use www.zoneedit.com. It works pretty good and it's free. All you do is have your registrar (godaddy) direct your Name Servers to those of zoneedit.com (NS1.zoneedit.com and NS2.zoneedit.com I believe) and from zoneedit you redirect the domains to the IP address of your host.

cheers,

-khtm-

 

[Hooobi]

khtm: Thanks for all the advice.

I was under the impression that "transferring" my domain to readyhosting.com meant I would have to make them the registrar, it seems to me that you're saying that all I have to do is subscribe with their hosting service and somehow point my domain at it and that I can continue to renew my domain with godaddy?

also, does anyone know if godaddy allows you to put any content on your domain, or does this always require a separate hosting service?

thanks

H

 

[NakaNaka]

I would say check out my webhosting company (which you should anyway to help out an AT'er (see sig)) but I noticed Ready Host 100 bucks a year for 500 megs and unlimited data? I mean the storage fine that's a lot but unlimited data trasnfer. How do they do that? Is it a catch??