Cheap Web Hosting Services for Your Domain Names

There are 2 items you need in order to have an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will open your site when you type it in a browser, and the second one is a web hosting package, which is principally the data storage space on a server where the site files will be placed, plus a few more services that come with it. The domain name and the web hosting package are 2 similar, yet separate solutions, and you need them both in order to have a running site.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the address for the online portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to sixty four symbols long and it involves two entities – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above instance, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the TLD. While you can choose the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a set number of top-level domain names to choose from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain stretch of time between 1 and 10 yrs. They may contain more requirements with regard to the registrant.

Domain Hosting Solutions

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you demand a website hosting package where you have to add it. In this way, when you write it in a browser, it will open the web page files that you host in the account, in other words it will open your site. You can have a domain registered with one provider and obtain the hosting service from another, even though many companies offer both services and it is more user-friendly to administer everything from one single website hosting Control Panel interface. Either way, since the domain registration and the web hosting package are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you have to change a certain setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named name servers. Each web hosting corporation has at least two nameservers - ns1.starteweb.com and ns2.starteweb.com, for example. The web hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain name offers you the chance to modify the name servers and point the domain name to one service provider or another.

The Necessity for Dependable web hosting Services

The moment the domain is pointed to a certain domain hosting company and is added to their web hosting servers, you will receive different services. The most important one is that the website files that you keep on the hosting server will now be displayed when you write your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to establish email address accounts like [email protected] and utilize webmail or a mail client to administer them. Whether you have a personal or a corporate web page, being accessible online and being allowed to create email mailbox accounts with your domain are the two most cardinal things that you receive with a hosting account. If you manage a business online portal – it will identify your business before your website visitors or clients. That's why you need a trustworthy web hosting corporation that will deliver a reliable and steady hosting solution.

Dependable web hosting Solutions by 'STARTEWEB'

Extra web services that you get by hosting a domain with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to set up and edit certain domain records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.