Low-Price Hosting Solutions for Your Top-Level Domain Names
There are two entities you demand so as to own an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will display your site when you write it in a browser, and the other one is a web hosting plan, which is principally the data storage space on a web server where the site files will be located, plus a few more features that come with it. The domain name and the web hosting plan are 2 linked, yet separate solutions, and you require them both to have a functioning site.
What is a Domain Name?
A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will select to be the address for the online portal: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain can be up to 64 symbols long and it is made of 2 pieces – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the abovementioned instance, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the TLD. While you can select the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that is available for registration, there is a finite number of top-level domain names to select from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given interval of time between one and ten years. They may have more requirements with respect to the registrant.
Domain Name Web Hosting Services
As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you require a web hosting plan where you have to add it. In such a way, when you type it in a web browser, it will open the site files that you host in the account, i.e. it will show your online portal. You can have a domain registered with a given registrar and get the hosting service from another, even though many hosting service providers provide both solutions and it is more user-friendly to administer all services from a single web hosting CP tool. Either way, because the domain registration and the web hosting package are different services, you have to point the domain to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you have to change a certain setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named name server records. Each web hosting firm has at least two name servers - ns1.vistawebhost.com and ns2.vistawebhost.com, for example. The web hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain gives you the chance to modify the nameservers and point the domain to one hosting service provider or another.
The Need of Stable Hosting Solutions
Once the domain name is pointed to a concrete domain hosting firm and is added to their web servers, you will get different web services. The most important one is that the website files that you keep on the web server will now be available online when you type your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to establish electronic mails such as name@my-best-domain.com and utilize webmail or an e-mail client to handle them. Whether you run a personal or a corporate web page, being online and being able to set up email mailboxes with your domain are the two most important things that you receive with a web hosting account. If you have a corporate website – it will single out your business before your web page visitors or customers. For that reason you need a trustworthy web hosting firm that will deliver a fast and stable hosting service.
Trustworthy web hosting Solutions by 'VistaWebHost'
Other online services that you get by hosting a domain name with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the ability to set up and edit given domain records from your Hepsia CP.