Cheap Web Hosting Plans for Your Domain Names

There are two things you require in order to set up a web site. The first one is a domain name that will open your web portal when you write it in a browser, and the other one is a website hosting account, which is basically the data storage space on a server where the site files will be situated, plus several more services that come with it. The domain and the web hosting account are 2 linked, yet separate services, and you demand them both so as to have a running website.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric name that you will select to be the web address for the web page: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to sixty four symbols long and it involves 2 parts – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the above instance, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the TLD. While you can choose the SLD of the domain name to be anything that is open for registration, there is a set number of TLDs to pick from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed interval of time between 1 and 10 yrs. They may entail additional stipulations concerning the registrant.

Domain Web Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you require a website hosting package where you have to accommodate it. In this way, when you write it in a browser, it will show the content that you host in the account, in other words it will display your web site. You can have a domain registered with a given registrar and receive the hosting service from another, even though numerous hosts offer both solutions and it is more user-friendly to administer everything from the same website hosting Control Panel GUI. Either way, because the domain name registration and the web hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain to the server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you need to alter a given setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called name servers. Each hosting company has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.hostopark.com and ns2.hostopark.com, for example. The web hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain name offers you the option to modify the name servers and point the domain to one host or another.

The Necessity for Stable Web Hosting Solutions

As soon as the domain name is pointed to a particular domain hosting provider and is added to their web hosting servers, you will receive different online services. The most crucial 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 set up email addresses such as [email protected] and use webmail or an e-mail client to manage them. Whether you own a personal or a corporate web page, being online and being enabled to set up mails with your domain are the two most important things that you obtain with a web hosting account. If you administer a corporate site – it will identify your business before your web site visitors or clients. Therefore you demand a reliable web hosting provider that will offer a dependable and steady web hosting solution.

Dependable web hosting Services by 'Hostopark'

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