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A lovely friend of mine asked me some questions on how to set up a website, with a given purchased domain name and an available webspace. For a moment, I stumbled because there are several things in which we are talking about, including various ways of building a website. However, I believe that my friend is referring to pointing the Domain Name Servers (DNS) to the web hosting server.

Let start with the basic tool of what you may need. The following are probably the stuffs you need to get:

1. A top-level domain (TLD) name, e.g. domain.com. You definitely have to pay for this, and generally, you can renew it every year. Some domain registrars allow you to renew a domain name for 10 years or more in a single transaction.
2. A web hosting service - It simply means you need a web-hosting server (or a webspace) to host your site. There are several web hosting services available in the Internet, ranging from free ones, e.g. Hostmatrix.org to paid services, e.g. BlueHost.

In this tutorial, I will assume (in most circumstances) that you have already purchased your domain name and a web hosting service. Otherwise, I will still briefly cover them here.

(building your new website...)