The domain is key for any page. So will the accommodation , of course. However, the name that we choose, the extension that we are going to use, will be something fixed that we cannot change unless we decide to create another new website. It is something that we must take into account when we start a project to create a website.
On the other hand, hosting is
something that we can choose at any time and change it if we wish. For
example, if you have hired it with a company and later find another offer that
interests us more, with better benefits and price. One of the factors that
could cause us to opt for another alternative is the storage capacity.
So, could we contract the domain and hosting separately ? The
answer is yes. We can contract the domain with a registrar and the storage
with another totally different platform. In this way we would have a
domain pointing to a hosting that is in a different company.??
Many users start with a simple hosting, a shared hosting
that allows the basics for the operation of the web. With the passage of
time, this may be too small for them and they may need more resources. This
could make them opt for a dedicated hosting, which would be more expensive but
with more possibilities.
For this reason, at first we may have contracted the domain
and hosting with different companies or it may be in the
same and later we are interested in changing the web storage to a different
one. This is something we can do at any time. In addition, it is
something relatively common and one that many page managers take into account.
Point the DNS to the suitable hosting
Let's say that we have contracted a web domain with a
company, but we want to use the hosting on a different hosting. That
domain will point the DNS to the hosting of that
company, but we want them to point to the accommodation where we are really
going to save the files of our site.
For this to be possible, what we have to do is change
the DNS of the domain and make them point to that server
that we have in another place. We must have these data when hiring a web
storage. The normal thing is that the company sends us an email indicating
that the hosting is activated and the access data. In case we do not have
them, we would simply have to contact them.
Once we have this data, what we have to do is enter the
control panel of the company where we have contracted the domain, select the
specific domain and look for the option to modify DNS, DNS or Nameservers . It
will depend on the company, but the process is similar.
When we are at this point, we simply have to change the
data that we have previously obtained from the hosting we want to target. This
will allow the website to function properly and for visitors to have no problem
viewing them.
Something similar to the image above should appear. There
we would simply have to put the corresponding data and click on Change
Nameservers or Change DNS , depending on the company where
we are.
The change of DNS in a hosting is not immediate
Keep in mind that this change does not occur immediately. Once
we put the corresponding DNS and give it to
apply, we will have to wait a while until they propagate through the Internet
and the changes really take effect.
This is usually a process that takes less than a day,
but we may have to wait even more than 24 hours. Therefore it is not
something that has immediate effect only after having changed it in the
corresponding domain. This will happen regardless of the hosting we have
contracted.