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Do I need hosting ? Great! Youv'e opened your account and bought your domain name lets call it www.yourdomain.com, what can you do with it ? Do I need to buy hosting ? You can get yourself up and running with no additional cost by using the services of the company that you use to connect to the internet. This company is called your Internet Service Provider or ISP. You almost certainly have an e-mail account that has been provided by your ISP that you already use and is probably something like username@yourisp.com. You can simply use the e-mail forwarding options in your 123 reg control panel to have all mail sent to that mail account. E.g. mail addressed to you@yourdomain.com would be sent to username@yourisp.com. You can then configure your e-mail program (e.g. outlook express) to show sent mail as having come from you@yourdomain.com The general account configuration section of Outlook Express is shown below, if you don't use OE then your e-mail programme should have something similar. The servers section remains unchanged, still using the settings given to you by your ISP. Your ISP may also offer you some web space too and you can simply use the web forwarding option in your 123 reg control panel to send anyone who types www.yourdomain.com to your free webspace. You will need to get instructions on how to activate and publish files to your free webspace from your ISP They will also give you its web address which is usually of the form username.yourisp.com Those simple steps have now got you an e-mail address in the format you@yourdomail.com and visitors to www.yourdomain.com will be sent to whatever pages you have published in your free web space So why would I want to pay for hosting ? >>>>> |
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