Connecting a Domain to hosting that are on different providers.

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This applies when Domain and Hosting are provided by two different service providers ( i.e. GoDaddy hosting and Namecheap domain )

3 pieces of information are needed from the HOSTING to be put in to the settings on the DOMAIN service provider:
nameserver1 address
nameserver2 address
host IP

The nameserver addresses get put in to the nameserver fields
The host IP is used for the A record. A CNAME record is added to add www to the domain and the value of the CNAME record must be the name that is used for the A record.

Assuming the host IP is 198.71.233.41 it would look like: