When creating a website, course, or community – it’s important to understand the difference between domains and hosting. A domain is an address book that people use to get to your site, while hosting is the service that serves your content and files.
In this lesson, we’ll go over domains versus hosting for online course teachers so that you can specify the names of your services and have those names point to the web servers that provide those services. You’ll also know how to provide names for each of your services and then configure those names to go to the right places for all your different websites, email, community, and courses.
Challenges online course teachers can face if they don’t understand domain and hosting:
• Online teachers may struggle to set up their websites, courses, and communities.
• If there’s downtime or slow performance, you may not know what to fix.
• You may be forced to use one vendor versus a collection of best in class providers.
• Teachers may complicate the student experience if they don't optimize their hosting names and records.
• You may not know how to fix or grow your technology as you get more customers.
Tips for creative online course teachers when using domain and hosting:
• Your domains hold your global address book, and hosting provides your content.
• Select a domain name that is easy to remember and relates to your course content.
• Choose hosting providers that offer various tiers to upgrade as you need more power.
• Remember your hosting provides address records for all your internal and external services.
• We recommend that you use different companies for domain services vs hosting services.
For more details and tips check out the full writeup at:
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