Reasonably Priced Web Hosting Solutions for Your Top-Level Domains

There are 2 features you demand in order to open a web portal. The first one is a domain name that will show your web portal when you write it in a web browser, and the second one is a website hosting account, which is basically the hard disk storage space on a web server where the web site files will be located, plus a few more features that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting package are two interconnected, yet different services, and you demand both of them in order to have a functioning web site.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric name that you will pick to be the web address for the online portal: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to sixty four symbols long and it is made of 2 components – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the aforementioned example, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the TLD. While you can pick the SLD of the domain name to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a finite number of TLDs to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain period of time between one and ten years. They may have more preconditions concerning the registrant.

Domain Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you demand a website hosting package where you have to host it. In this way, when you write it in a browser, it will open the files that you have in the account, in other words it will exhibit your web site. You can have a domain registered with a particular registrar and get the hosting service from another, although lots of hosting vendors offer both solutions and it is more user-friendly to administer everything from one single web hosting CP interface. Either way, since the domain 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 do that, you need to alter a specific setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called nameservers. Each web hosting service provider has at least 2 name servers - ns1.rickhosting.com and ns2.rickhosting.com, for example. The website hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain gives you the opportunity to modify the NS records and point the domain name to one hosting company or another.

The Necessity for Dependable web hosting Services

The moment the domain name is pointed to a concrete domain hosting supplier and is added to their hosting servers, you will obtain a number of online services. The most vital one is that the site files that you have on the web hosting server will now be available online when you write your domain in a web browser. You will also be able to set up electronic mailboxes like name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or an email client to tackle them. Whether you run a personal or a business online portal, being accessible online and being enabled to set up e-mail boxes with your domain name are the two most cardinal things that come with a website hosting account. If you host a corporate online portal – it will single out your business before your website visitors or customers. This is the reason why you require a dependable service provider that will offer a fast and steady website hosting service.

Trustworthy website hosting Solutions by 'Rick Hosting'

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