Affordable Hosting Packages for Your TLDs

There are two things you demand in order to kick off a web site. The first one is a domain name that will open your site when you write it in a browser, and the other one is a hosting account, which is essentially the hard disk space on a server where the website files will be located, plus several more features that it is offering. The domain name and the web hosting package are two interconnected, yet different solutions, and you require both of them so as to have a running web site.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will choose to be the address for the web page: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it is composed of two parts – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the aforementioned illustration, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can pick the SLD of the domain to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a certain number of TLDs to pick from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed spell of time between one and ten yrs. They may include other stipulations regarding the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Solutions

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you require a web hosting package where you have to host it. In this way, when you write it in a browser, it will display the files that you have in the account, in other words it will exhibit your online portal. You can have a domain name registered with a particular company and obtain the hosting service from another, even though many web hosting providers provide both services and it is more user-friendly to manage all services from the same website hosting CP user interface. Either way, because the domain name registration and the web hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain name to the server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you need to modify a given setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called NS records. Each web hosting provider has at least 2 name servers - ns1.123megahost.com and ns2.123megahost.com, for instance. The web hosting CP that you have for your domain offers you the option to modify the NS records and point the domain name to one hosting supplier or another.

The Need of Dependable Web Hosting Solutions

Once the domain name is pointed to a particular domain hosting firm and is added to their web hosting servers, you will get various online services. The most important one is that the web page files that you host on the hosting server will now be available online when you type your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to create electronic mail accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and make use of webmail or a mail user agent to manage them. Whether you manage a personal or a business web portal, being accessible online and being permitted to set up email mailboxes with your domain name are the two most cardinal options that you get with a website hosting account. In case you manage a corporate web portal – it will single out your business before your web page visitors or customers. For that reason you demand a reliable web hosting company that will offer a dependable and steady web hosting service.

Trustworthy web hosting Solutions by '123MegaHost'

Extra services that you receive by hosting a domain with us are: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and mailing lists, and the possibility to set up and modify certain domain records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.