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Can someone please help with my website?
(Kolm - am gonna buy you a drink when I see you in Manchester next because you helped last time too).

So as clearly as I can write it,
how do I repoint my domain name from 1and1 to hostpapa.
I want my domain name registrar as 1and1, but I want to put a wordpress blog at hostpapa, and somehow I need to link them.
I know I need to change the DNS settings of the name server, but I'm not sure what they should look like.
should they be...

ns1.hostpapa.com
or
ns1.myownwebsitedomain.com

I mean, how does pointing the domain to their servers, link with my account too at the hosting site?
If you can answer clearly too, that will help.

Thanks,
Ed.

I am with 1and1 but have the site elsewhere. Go to your domains section and tick the domain you want. Now click on edit DNS and change the..

Primary name server
Secondary name server
1. Secondary name server
2. Secondary name server
3. Secondary name server

I only had to change primary, 1 and 2

the DNS should set to be ns1.yourhost.com

so in your case the required DNS settings would be:

ns1.hostpapa.com

and probably ns2.hostpapa.com if it exists - always good to have at least 2 DNS addresses in there in case the first fails.

It may take up to 24 hours for the change to propagate, but in some cases it will be quicker.

how does pointing the domain to their servers, link with my account too at the hosting site

When you type a domain name into your browser, your computer needs to know the numeric IP address to go to to fetch that site. Every web server has an IP address.

The people who host your site know which of their servers (IPs) host your site but they don't control the data about your domain name.

The people you bought the domain from control the data about your domain, but they don't know which IP it's on.

So you need to tell the people you bought the domain from where the information about the IP address is, they'll then update the authoritative domain record with information about where to find the IP for that domain.

Your webhost provide a domain name server for this purpose (ns1.hostpapa.com in your case).

So you tell the registrar (1and1) to update the domain record with that name server, and when a browser comes along asking for that domain, they look up the name server in the DNS record and find ns1.hostpapa.com. Then they ask ns1.hostpapa.com what the IP address is for yoursite.com, it tells them, because it knows, and then the browser can finally ask that IP for yoursite.com

There are a few levels of caching built in that I'm glossing over, which mean that every time anyone loads any website they don't necessarily have to go back to the root DNS servers to find the IP address, they instead have a locally cached copy, and that's why it can take up to 24 hours for the change to have an effect.

Hope that helps

Jing wrote:Can someone please help with my website?
(Kolm - am gonna buy you a drink when I see you in Manchester next because you helped last time too).

heh, it's not a problem Thanks

I think user24 has it covered really - can't really add anything else to that!

Well, I hope it works,
and then I can buy user24 a drink, if we ever meet.

heh heh, no worries, I work in a related field - I'm a web developer - so I hope it works too! It should!