Let's Just Blog-102


What is a Domain Name?
A domain name is generally a website address mapped to an IP within the internet. Just like phone number is registered by phone owner and is mapped to a device, website name is registered by the website owner and is mapped to the IP of the computer on the internet.
https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-a-domain-name-2483189

Domain Name on a blogging platform?
Though, you may be able to find a blog name on free blogging platforms like Blogger, Wordpress, Tumblr it may not be possible to get your own domain name yet. For eg: I am creating this blog on Blogger with a blog name Let's Just Blog. I chose one of the available name (letsjustblog-bonjour) and google blogger service is associating my blog posts to the the domain letsjustblog-bonjour.blogspot.com. Now you can access my blogs at the following URL: https://letjustblog-bonjour.blogspot.com/

Choose your own Domain Name?
It is quite easy to buy a domain name, and there are ample of DNS providers, Google Domains being one of them. However, you may need a hosting service as well if you want to run your website on a content management system, like Wordpress. A blog from Jessica Knapp mentions that she is running her website on Hostgator, but I have also heard about Go Daddy, Wix, Wordpress.com etc. You can also provision a VM with one of the cloud providers, AWS EC2 , GCP , Azure , Digital Ocean , and install Wordpress on it but it may be a bit of a complicated setup for beginners. But if you decide to choose your own domain, below is the link that can provide you some tips.
https://themeisle.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-domain-name/

Design, Develop and Build
Another path is to custom develop your site, but it will then be more than just blogging. You will have to choose a development stack, and put lot of efforts in learning it. Some of you may have heard of LAMP stack [Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP] and websites that run on Wordpress usually run on it. Either you should be a PHP developer, or consider growing as a one if you do decide to run on native LAMP stack.
Another popular stack these days is MEAN stack [MongoDB, Express, Angular, NodeJS], and there is huge open source community that backs it. Either you should be a Javascript developer, or consider growing as one if you do decide to run on native MEAN stack.

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