Cut-Price Hosting Packages for Your Top-Level Domains

There are 2 features you require in order to open a web page. The first one is a domain name that will display your online portal when you write it in a web browser, and the other one is a hosting plan, which is principally the storage space on a web hosting server where the website files will be located, plus a few more features that come with it. The domain name and the web hosting plan are 2 associated, yet different solutions, and you require both of them to have a functioning web site.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the web address for the website: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain can be up to sixty four symbols long and it comprises 2 pieces – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above instance, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can select the Second-Level Domain of the domain to be anything that is free to register, there is a fixed 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 fixed spell of time between one and 10 yrs. They may include more stipulations about the registrant.

Domain Name Web Hosting Services

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you demand a website hosting account where you have to host it. In such a way, when you write it in a web browser, it will exhibit the website files that you host in the account, i.e. it will open your online portal. You can have a domain name registered with a particular registrar and get the hosting service from another, even though many hosting distributors offer both solutions and it is more user-friendly to manage everything from the same website hosting Control Panel GUI. Either way, because the domain name registration and the web hosting package are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you need to change a specific setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named NS records. Each web hosting corporation has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.aus.ipguide.net and ns2.aus.ipguide.net, for instance. The Control Panel that you use for your domain name offers you the possibility to change the name servers and point the domain name to one web hosting vendor or another.

The Necessity for Trustworthy Hosting Services

As soon as the domain is pointed to a concrete domain hosting supplier and is added to their servers, you will receive various services. The most essential one is that the site files that you accommodate on the server will now be available online when you type your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to set up email mailboxes such as name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or a mail user agent to handle them. Whether you run a personal or a corporate site, being accessible online and being enabled to set up e-mail address accounts with your domain name are the two most significant options that you get with a website hosting plan. In case you administer a corporate web site – it will represent your business before your visitors or customers. For that reason you need a reliable web hosting firm that will supply a reliable and stable website hosting service.

Dependable web hosting Solutions by 'IPguide'

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, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the possibility to create and modify certain domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.