Once more with feeling! Your web hosting and domain name are two separate entities that act somewhat independently. But despite how complicated the process can be to move one or the other to a different provider, it’s extraordinarily easy to make sure the two components of your site are working together. For that, you’ll need to know your web host’s name servers. Loosely speaking, name servers tell the web browsers of your visitors where to find your website’s files. The name servers, part of the DNS we mentioned earlier, translate the human-friendly domain name like hostingadvice.com to the IP address of the server where your site resides. Your web host likely sent you the information on its name servers when you first signed up for services, but it should be fairly easy to find otherwise. Name servers typically follow a format of ns1.hostname.com and ns2.hostname.com. You’ll need to have both of them handy. Sign in to your domain registration account and look for DNS management tools. The settings for your name servers should be featured somewhat prominently, so go ahead and input any and all nameservers you were provided with; each acts as a backup in case the one before it fails. Once that’s done, all you have to do is wait — it can take a few days for the rest of the computers in the world to make notice of the change.