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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 15 2:06 pm Post subject: Cost of domains
What is the going rate for domain hosting nowadays and what should one expect for the money?

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 15 2:24 pm Post subject:
I think i pay about £50 a year for the hosting. Domain itself is negligible because I have a dot co dot uk one. Have a look at 123 - reg.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 15 2:41 pm Post subject:
We charge website hosting from £23.88 pa (£28.66 inc.) and domains from £4.99 (£5.98 ) per year.

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 12918
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 15 4:20 pm Post subject:
If you have an app, does it have a domain name, or how does that work. Does it have to be a separate one?

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 15 4:26 pm Post subject:

alison wrote:

If you have an app, does it have a domain name, or how does that work. Does it have to be a separate one?

To generalise. An online app (website) will need a domain. It can be a domain of it's own e.g. example.com or a subdomain of an existing one e.g. app.example.com. The latter domain doesn't attract domain registration fees as it's piggybacking an existing domain.

A mobile phone/tablet type app doesn't require a domain.

Falstaff

Joined: 27 May 2009
Posts: 1014

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 15 4:44 pm Post subject:
Well that's me completely lost now !

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 15 5:25 pm Post subject:

Chez wrote:

Have a look at 123 - reg.

Thanks, they are who I am with.

vegplot wrote:

So if you have example.com, how do you set up app.example.com?

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 15 5:52 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Chez wrote:

Have a look at 123 - reg.

Thanks, they are who I am with.

vegplot wrote:

So if you have example.com, how do you set up app.example.com?

All you need do is create an A record and point it to the relevant IP address that hosts the service. If it's a website then you then need to tell the web server the web site should response to this domain.

For instance if we have a web service onto that we want to handle app.example.com we first set up the website (it could be a new site or existing site) so that it knows it has a new identity (host header) app.example.com. Then we edit the zone file (DNS) and in the example.com we create an A record pointing to the IP address that corresponds to website that handles app.example.com.

That's the hands-on way of doing it. Most providers will simplify this in some way.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 15 6:03 pm Post subject:
Just as an aside, it's very pleasing to see example.com actually exists.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 15 7:47 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Just as an aside, it's very pleasing to see example.com actually exists.

Oh yes. It's a reserved domain just for this purpose.

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