Low-Priced Hosting Plans for Your Top-Level Domains

There are two items you need in order to establish a web portal. The first one is a domain name that will display your web site when you write it in a browser, and the other one is a hosting package, which is basically the hard disk space on a web server where the website files will be placed, plus several more services that it is offering. The domain name and the web hosting package are 2 similar, yet separate solutions, and you need both of them so as to have a functioning web site.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will pick to be the web address for the web site: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to sixty four characters long and it is made of 2 constituents – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above instance, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can choose the second-level domain name of the domain name to be anything that is free to register, 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 1 and 10 yrs. They may contain more requirements regarding the registrant.

Domain Hosting Solutions

As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting account where you have to host it. In such a way, when you write it in a web browser, it will open the web site files that you have in the account, i.e. it will display your site. You can have a domain name registered with a specific provider and receive the hosting service from another, although a lot of companies offer both services and it is more time-saving to manage all services from one website hosting CP user interface. Either way, because the domain registration and the hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you have to modify a given setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named nameservers. Each hosting vendor has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.businessdigitaltoolkit.com and ns2.businessdigitaltoolkit.com, for example. The web hosting CP that you use for your domain gives you the chance to modify the NS records and point the domain to one web hosting supplier or another.

The Demand for Dependable web hosting Services

The moment the domain name is pointed to a concrete domain hosting service provider and is added to their web servers, you will get a number of online services. The most vital one is that the site files that you host on the web hosting server will now be displayed when you type your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to establish electronic mailboxes such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or an e-mail client to tackle them. Whether you administer a personal or a business site, being available online and being enabled to use email address accounts with your domain name are the two most cardinal options that you get with a website hosting package. If you host a corporate web page – it will identify your business before your web site visitors or customers. Therefore you need a dependable web hosting corporation that will supply a fast and stable web hosting solution.

Dependable web hosting Services by 'Small Business Digital Toolkit'

Additional online services that you receive by hosting a domain with us include: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the ability to create and edit specific domain records from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel.