I want to buy a domain for a blog. So, i wanted to know what are the things i need to know?? also, what is webhosting and bandwidth and all that?? what will be the relative cost for a domain?
Shreyash I would suggest you a very nice approach a) Find out availability of domain and also suggestion for your domain name using this tool domainsbot dot com b) Once you have finalized a domain name, buy it using Godaddy or Net4India (If you are from India) c) Hosting is a space on a machine(Linux or Windows webserver) where your domain would point d) Find a hosting with respect to your budget (for cheap hosting would suggest jkhosting dot com) e) Bandwidth is calculated based on the usage on your website, people coming to your site and accessing pages, images etc.. would consume bandwidth and you need to pay (generally you get 2-3GB / Month free of cost with hosting package) Cost starts from 7-9 USD for domain, it also depends whether you are going for a .com, .info or .org domain name. Cheap hosting charges starts from $1.5 -$2 Month Rest i think people here at this forum would add
As far as blogspot (blogger) is concerned, I do not think it is possible. It creates a subdomain for your either on its hosting or you can providing hosting details of your own server to host the blog created on blogger. May be this option would be with any other free blogging host, do check
If you are wanting to host a wordpress blog you will be better going with a linux platform for your hosting. Also check out the requirements of the blog, e.g. version of php and mysql. Most will meet these requirements.