n00b questions on hosting

  • I’ve had blogs on different blogging sites with my own domain name for several years, but have never had real hosting or wordpress so I have a few questions I hope someone won’t mind answering or directing me to the answer.

    I tried to sign-up with vizhost yesterday, but they have yet to send me my account info or respond to my email. Thankfully I had a code for a free month so I haven’t paid them anything.

    I saw ehostone recommended in the forum here and am thinking of going with their $1/month plan is 100MB enough space?

    Right now my blog is a blogger blog but is hosted with my isp (Comcast), will I have any problems importing it to wordpress? Will my comments move too?

    My domain name is with GoDaddy and right now it is forwarded to my blog on Comcast. I’ve always had my domain names forwarded or masked, but I don’t want that. I want it mapped (I think that’s what I mean), do I have to pay for DNS to do that or how does that work?

    I think that’s it, thanks!

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  • You buy a domain name from/with a registrar – in your case godaddy. That’s fine.

    Then buy a decent hosting package (I mean $4-5-6/mo minimum… you know: you get what you pay for with the $1 hosting!)

    When you are set up you login to godaddy and change the name servers (DNS) to point to your own host.
    It takes 48-72 hrs to propagate through the net… and after that you just install WP on your host and you are done.

    Thread Starter avantreese

    (@avantreese)

    So the host will give me name servers to put in place of the GoDaddy default ones being used now and with their name servers the domain name won’t have to be forwarded?

    That’s right.
    Usually, I don’t have the same company as registrar and host, and the only thing I do is changing the name servers.

    Thread Starter avantreese

    (@avantreese)

    Thanks.

    So should there be any problem importing my blogger blog to WP since it is not hosted by blogger but by comcast?

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