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This is a basic but fundamental guide to setting up your new domain name with your web hosting account. This guide will help beginners with a step by step guide on starting your own.com website.

First things first, you need a domain name, if you haven't bought one already, a simple Google search for "cheap domain registrars" can get you started. Typical domain name charges are around $5 to $15 a year depending on the registrar.

Once you get your domain name purchased, next thing you must do is get a hosting account. If you are hosting a professional business or blog website, check out KeoloHosting for quality hosting services. You need to purchase a hosting account before you can move forward.

At this point, you should now have a domain name at a registrar of your choice, and a hosting account at KeoloHosting. Just because you have bought the 2 necessary items to get a website online, it doesn't mean that you are ready to go.

You now have to connect the hosting account with the domain name, so that when someone types in "http://www.yoursite.com", all the files from your hosting account can be pulled up.

To connect your domain and hosting account, you need to login to both accounts. When you signed up for your hosting account, you were required to let the company know what domain name would be associated with this storage space. You should have also gotten an email with welcome information and 2 lines of URLs that are called "nameservers". These nameservers help connect the 2 items to get you online.

So find the 2 lines of nameservers in your welcome email (typically like ns1.something.com and ns2.something.com). Once you have these nameservers, you need to login to your domain registrar and head over to domain options. There you will look for a nameserver tab, where you can input these 2 lines of code seperately.

Tip: If you are unable to input the 2 lines, make sure that you are "enabled" to make changes to the site. When you signup for your domain name, everything is typically unlocked for your editing convenience, but not always so. If you have trouble finding the tab to enable your editing, contact your registrar with a quick email, its real simple.

Once you have changed the nameservers, I recommend you lock all options, so that no one can hack or edit your domain information. After you save it can take about 15 minutes all the way up to a day for the changes to take place.

What you should to see if your efforts worked out, is to visit your domain name after some time and you should see some sort of blank directory page or the host welcome message notifying you that everything has been connected and you are ready to upload files and get started.

That's it! It's really quite simple since all you have to do is buy the 2 things and connect them via the nameserver, but it can be really confusing if this is your first ever experience buying hosting and domain online.

I hope you enjoyed my article regarding Web Hosting, I enjoy the topic very much and own several dozen websites myself. I love helping others with quick and complex hosting issues, and really hope you benefited from reading my article. If you need quality small business hosting, check out KeoloHosting. Have a great day!