Affordably Priced Hosting Solutions for Your Top-Level Domains

There are two features you require so as to start a web portal. The first one is a domain name that will show your site when you write it in a web browser, and the other one is a website hosting plan, which is principally the storage space on a web server where the website files will be located, plus a few more features that come with it. The domain and the web hosting plan are two interconnected, yet different solutions, and you require both of them to have an operational 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 portal: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain can be up to 64 characters long and it includes 2 entities – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above instance, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can select the SLD of the domain name to be anything that is available for registration, there is a set number of Top-Level Domains to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given stretch of time between 1 and ten yrs. They may involve more specifications about the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Services

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you demand a web hosting account where you have to add it. Thus, when you type it in a web browser, it will open the web page files that you have in the account, i.e. it will display your web site. You can have a domain name registered with one registrar and obtain the hosting service from another, although a lot of web hosting providers offer both services and it is more time-saving to manage everything from one and the same website hosting CP user interface. Either way, because the domain name registration and the web hosting plan are separate services, you have to point the domain to the server where it will be added as hosted. To accomplish that, you have to change a specific setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called name servers. Each host has at least two nameservers - ns1.host2netltd.co.uk and ns2.host2netltd.co.uk, for instance. The web hosting CP that you have for your domain name offers you the chance to change the name server records and point the domain to one hosting vendor or another.

The Necessity for Reliable web hosting Solutions

As soon as the domain is pointed to a specific domain hosting firm and is added to their web hosting servers, you will get various online services. The most essential one is that the web page files that you keep on the web hosting server will now be shown when you type your domain in a web browser. You will also be able to set up e-mails such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or a mail client to handle them. Whether you host a personal or a corporate web site, being accessible online and being enabled to create mails with your domain are the two most important options that you get with a hosting plan. If you own a corporate web site – it will represent your business before your web page visitors or customers. For that reason you demand a dependable host that will provide a reliable and stable website hosting solution.

Reliable Web Hosting Services by 'Host2net Limited'

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