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Find a suitable web host.

Websites need somewhere to live. In this challenge you are going to arrange suitable accommodation (hosting) for your website and make your webspace available on your domain name. The hosting requirements for Webmaking101 are very basic and you do not need any special technologies. You just need a plain and simple hosting account with no added fancy stuff. This challenge should take about 45 minutes to complete and by the end of it your web space will be ready to use with your domain name.

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Blog About Your Hosting Setup

Explain why you chose a hosting company and create a step by step guide explaining how you configured your DNS to point at your hosting account

The technical parts of this challenge are now complete. All that is left for you to do now is to write a blog post called "Hosting & DNS". Spend about 20 minutes on this task.

In this blog post you need to write about two things :

The name of your hosting company and why you've chosen them. Was it because of price, support, their nice shiny website or peer recommendation?
A step by step guide as to how you configured your DNS to point at your hosting account. Bonus points are available for nice screenshots and creative presentation.

Your blog post will provide your peers with two useful things. Firstly, It will provide information that will help them choose web hosting. Secondly it will also provide valuable detail on how to set up their domain to point at their hosting accounts. Bare this in mind when you're writing it.

When you've completed your blog post, let the community know about it by posting it onto the challenge discussion page.

Task Discussion

Jeff Friend said:

This is a link to my work: http://1stepts.com/index.php/posts/post/4/hosting-providers

on April 8, 2015, 11:06 p.m.
lotos said:

This is a link to my work: http://www.qtpcenter.com/

on March 13, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
Ashish Gautam Karn said:

This is a link to my work: https://www.rebelmouse.com/AshishGautamKarn/

on Sept. 3, 2014, 2:41 p.m.
Ashish Gautam Karn said:

link to my work:

http://ashishgautamp2pu.blogspot.in/2014/09/hosting-and-dns.html

on Sept. 3, 2014, 2:38 p.m.
Some Guy in Baltimore said:

This is a link to my work: http://someguyinbaltimore.tumblr.com/post/94193472821/choosing-a-hosting-provider

on Aug. 8, 2014, 6:30 p.m.
Nick Jackson said:

This is a link to my work: http://nickjackson.me/blog/2014/07/30/point-that-at-that.html

on July 1, 2014, 8:37 a.m.
Nick Jackson said:

You can read my blog post about how DNS and hosting fit together at http://nickjackson.me/blog/2014/07/30/point-that-at-that.html

on July 1, 2014, 8:36 a.m.
Dscherer21 said:

This is a link to my work: http://davidascherer.tumblr.com/post/90124454048/new-portfolio-domain

on June 28, 2014, 12:07 a.m.
Papayam said:

This is a link to my work: http://paysepar.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/hosting-dns/

on June 6, 2014, 10:40 p.m.
Sarah said:

This is a link to my work: http://swolterman1.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/domain-site-and-host-page/?preview=true&preview_id=27&preview_nonce=2f9009477a&post_format=standard

on May 13, 2014, 11:40 a.m.
Johnny van der Laan said:

This is a link to my work: http://fgameproductions.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/domain-of-choice/

on May 12, 2014, 12:28 p.m.
Selena said:

This is a link to my work: http://tumblr.com/

on April 18, 2014, 10:24 a.m.
Stormytori said:

This is a link to my work: http://jfeldmandesign.blogspot.com/2014/03/whats-in-domain-name.html

on March 2, 2014, 6:43 p.m.
Eager2learn2 said:

This is a link to my work: http://eager2learn2.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/hosting-and-dns/

on Jan. 24, 2014, 8:38 p.m.
Sosic said:

This is a link to my work: http://sosicblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/hosting-dns/

on Jan. 24, 2014, 7:58 p.m.
Thomas said:

well it feels great to acomplish this

on Jan. 17, 2014, 3:03 a.m.
Thomas said:

This is a link to my work: http://invincibletwelvewomensoccer.blogspot.com/

on Jan. 17, 2014, 3:02 a.m.