Affordable Web Hosting Services for Your Top-Level Domains

There are two features you need in order to have an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will display your web portal when you write it in a web browser, and the second one is a website hosting package, which is primarily the hard disk space on a web server where the web page files will be located, plus several more services that come with it. The domain name and the web hosting package are 2 similar, yet separate services, and you require them both in order to have a working web page.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the address for the site: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to sixty four characters long and it includes two constituents – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the abovementioned instance, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can pick the Second-Level Domain of the domain to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a fixed number of Top-Level Domains to choose from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given spell of time between one and 10 years. They may impose other stipulations with respect to the registrant.

Domain Hosting Solutions

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you demand a web hosting package where you have to host it. In such a way, when you type it in a web browser, it will open the content that you host in the account, i.e. it will exhibit your site. You can have a domain registered with a particular provider and receive the hosting service from another, even though many hosting suppliers offer both services and it is more time-saving to manage everything from one website hosting Control Panel interface. Either way, since the domain name registration and the web hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain name to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you have to change a certain setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named name server records. Each hosting service provider has at least two name servers - ns1.besterhost.com and ns2.besterhost.com, for example. The website hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain offers you the possibility to change the nameservers and point the domain name to one hosting corporation or another.

The Necessity for Stable web hosting Solutions

Once the domain name is pointed to a concrete domain hosting company and is added to their web servers, you will obtain several web services. The most essential one is that the site files that you keep on the web hosting server will now be exhibited when you type your domain in a browser. You will also be able to establish e-mails such as name@my-best-domain.com and make use of webmail or an email client to administer them. Whether you host a personal or a business web site, being available online and being enabled to set up email mailbox accounts with your domain name are the two most pivotal things that you get with a web hosting plan. If you host a business web portal – it will identify your business before your visitors or customers. That is the reason why you require a dependable web hosting distributor that will deliver a dependable and steady web hosting service.

Stable web hosting Services by 'Bester Host'

Other web services that you obtain by hosting a domain name with us include: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the ability to create and modify specific domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.