ITB 059 Do You Have Access to Your Blog

Do you know to work on your WordPress blog? In this podcast I will prompt you with a few questions for your web developer. Do you have Administrator rights? Do you have cPanel access? Do you have access to your domain and the DNS settings? DNS stands for Domain Name Service and/or Domain Name Servers. The Domain Name Service (DNS) can be thought of much like a directory or phone book. If you need to contact someone via telephone but only have his/her name, you can always check the phone book for their telephone number. The same applies when dealing with the Internet although this kind of "lookup" often happens in the background, unnoticed. Do you have FTP access? The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer computer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ hosting https://www.whois.net/ domain Whose name are all of the items in? If the developer is managing all of this for you, what happens if there is a conflict or they go out of business?