Inexpensive Hosting Plans for Your Top-Level Domain Names

There are 2 features you require so as to open a web site. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your site when you type it in a web browser, and the second one is a web hosting package, which is inherently the hard disk space on a server where the web site files will be situated, plus a few more services that it is offering. The domain and the web hosting account are 2 associated, yet separate solutions, and you require them both so as to have a running web portal.

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 can be up to 64 symbols long and it consists of two components – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the abovementioned instance, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can choose the SLD of the domain to be anything that is free to register, there is a finite number of top-level domain names to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain span of time between 1 and 10 years. They may involve more preconditions regarding the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Solutions

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you need a web hosting account where you have to accommodate it. Thus, when you type it in a browser, it will exhibit the web content that you have in the account, in other words it will display your web site. You can have a domain registered with a certain provider and receive the hosting service from another, although lots of hosting distributors provide both solutions and it is more time-saving to manage everything from one web hosting CP interface. Either way, because the domain name registration and the web hosting account are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To accomplish that, you have to alter a given setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called name server records. Each provider has at least two name servers - ns1.hosting.getdesignonline.com and ns2.hosting.getdesignonline.com, for example. The web hosting Control Panel that you utilize for your domain gives you the opportunity to alter the NS records and point the domain name to one hosting firm or another.

The Need of Dependable web hosting Services

The moment the domain is pointed to a certain domain hosting provider and is added to their web servers, you will receive various services. The most important one is that the site files that you keep on the web hosting server will now be displayed when you type your domain in a web browser. You will also be able to create electronic mails like name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or a mail user agent to handle them. Whether you own a personal or a business web page, being online and being able to use e-mail boxes with your domain name are the two most important options that you obtain with a website hosting plan. In case you run a business web portal – it will represent your business before your website visitors or clients. That is the reason why you require a reliable web hosting service provider that will deliver a reliable and steady website hosting service.

Dependable website hosting Solutions by 'Get Design Online'

Additional online services that you receive by hosting a domain name with us include: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the possibility to set up and modify certain domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.