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OK so the other day I wrote about the fact that you don’t need to hire a web guru to setup your website using something like Blogger, WordPress.com or BlueHost and yesterday I told you how to setup your own domain name such at a hosting company like GoDaddy or Domains At Cost but how do you combine them? Again, this is painfully simple and not just for spiffy web guys like me. Anybody can do this, so lets take a quick look at how it’s done.

In this example, I’m going to assume that you’re hosting your website at BlueHost and you’ve registered your domain name with GoDaddy, if you’ve done it else where the steps should be fairly simple to modify with a little bit of common sense and reading their Frequently Asked Questions section.

First … we need to point the domain name to the hosting company. We do this by logging into GoDaddy and editing something special called the DNS records. You can find this under your account Domain Manager. If you have multiple domain names, it will display a list and prompt you to select the one you’re looking to modify. At the top of the domain profile, there’s a button called Name Servers, we’re going to click that and expose the Custom Name Servers option where we simply type the name servers for BlueHost. The name servers for BlueHost are:

• ns1.bluehost.com
• ns2.bluehost.com

BlueHost setup process

Once that’s done, setting up your hosting account at BlueHost takes about 15 minutes and requires very little technical knowledge.