Affordable Hosting Services for Your Top-Level Domain Names
There are 2 items you need so as to host a web site. The first one is a domain name that will show your web portal when you type it in a browser, and the second one is a web hosting package, which is principally the data storage space on a web hosting server where the web page files will be located, plus several more features that are included in it. The domain name and the web hosting package are 2 related, yet different solutions, and you require both of them in order to have a working web page.
What is a Domain Name?
A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the web address for the site: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it comprises two components – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above example, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can select the SLD of the domain to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a fixed number of Top-Level Domains to pick from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given period of time between 1 and 10 years. They may involve more prerequisites in regard to the registrant.
Domain Name Hosting Services
As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you demand a website hosting account where you have to host it. Thus, when you type it in a web browser, it will show the content that you host in the account, in other words it will open your site. You can have a domain name registered with a certain company and get the hosting service from another, although a lot of hosting firms provide both services and it is more convenient to manage everything from one and the same website hosting Control Panel interface. Either way, since the domain registration and the web hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain name to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you need to modify a given setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called name server records. Each provider has at least two name servers - ns1.webservex.com and ns2.webservex.com, for instance. The hosting Control Panel that you utilize for your domain name gives you the opportunity to modify the name servers and point the domain to one service provider or another.
The Necessity for Dependable Hosting Solutions
Once the domain is pointed to a given domain hosting service provider and is added to their servers, you will get different online services. The most important one is that the web page files that you keep on the hosting server will now be displayed when you type your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to establish e-mail address accounts such as [email protected] and avail of webmail or a mail client to administer them. Whether you own a personal or a corporate website, being available online and being allowed to set up email boxes with your domain name are the two most cardinal things that you get with a web hosting package. If you administer a corporate online portal – it will represent your business before your web site visitors or customers. For this reason you require a dependable web hosting provider that will deliver a reliable and stable website hosting solution.
Stable Website Hosting Services by 'WebServex'
Extra online services that you receive by hosting a domain name with us are: FTP access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and mailing lists, and the possibility to create and modify given domain records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.