Cheap Hosting Services for Your Domain Names

There are 2 entities you need in order to kick off a web portal. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your site when you write it in a browser, and the second one is a website hosting plan, which is principally the data storage space on a web server where the web page files will be located, plus several more services that are included in it. The domain name and the web hosting package are two linked, yet separate services, and you need both of them to have a running web portal.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will choose to be the address for the web site: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it consists of two parts – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above illustration, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can pick the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that is free to register, there is a fixed number of Top-Level Domains to pick from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain span of time between one and 10 yrs. They may include other specifications regarding the registrant.

Domain Name Web Hosting Services

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you demand a web hosting account where you have to host it. Thus, when you write it in a web browser, it will show the site files that you host in the account, in other words it will show your web site. You can have a domain name registered with a given company and get the hosting service from another, although numerous hosting firms offer both services and it is more convenient to handle everything from the same website hosting CP interface. Either way, since the domain name registration and the website hosting plan are separate services, you have to point the domain to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To accomplish that, you need to alter a certain setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named name server records. Each web hosting company has at least 2 name servers - ns1.gayspacenetwork.com and ns2.gayspacenetwork.com, for instance. The website hosting CP that you use for your domain gives you the option to change the NS records and point the domain to one host or another.

The Demand for Dependable Web Hosting Services

The moment the domain is pointed to a concrete domain hosting vendor and is added to their web servers, you will obtain different services. The most important one is that the website files that you have on the hosting server will now be accessible when you type your domain in a browser. You will also be able to establish email accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and utilize webmail or a mail client to tackle them. Whether you administer a personal or a corporate web page, being available online and being able to use email accounts with your domain are the two most essential things that you get with a website hosting plan. If you own a corporate site – it will represent your business before your web page visitors or clients. For this reason you demand a stable hosting vendor that will supply a fast and steady website hosting solution.

Dependable Hosting Solutions by 'GaySpaceNetwork.com'

Additional online services that you get by hosting a domain name with us include: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, email auto-responders and mailing lists, and the possibility to create and configure certain domain name records from your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel.