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Email & Hosting Basics
How email and web hosting relate to your domain, and what a domain alone does and doesn’t include.
What Is Email Hosting?
Email hosting is the service that actually runs your inbox: the servers that receive, store, and let you send mail for addresses at your domain…
MX Records and How Mail Routing Works
An MX record (Mail Exchange record) is the specific type of DNS record that tells the rest of the internet which mail server is responsible for handling…
What Is Web Hosting and How Does It Relate to Your Domain?
Web hosting is the service that stores your website's actual files and serves them to visitors' browsers; it's a separate thing from domain registration,…
What Is an SSL Certificate?
An SSL certificate (technically TLS now, though "SSL" remains the common term) is what lets a website load over https:// instead of plain http://. It…
Do You Need Hosting to Use a Domain?
No; a domain works on its own for several genuinely useful purposes without any hosting at all. Email forwarding and URL forwarding don't require hosting:…
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