Cheap Hosting Packages for Your Top-Level Domains

There are two features you need so as to open a site. 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 account, which is fundamentally the hard disk storage space on a hosting server where the web page files will be placed, plus a few more features that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting package are 2 connected, yet different services, and you require both of them in order to have a functioning online portal.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the web address for the site: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to sixty four symbols long and it is composed of two pieces – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the aforementioned example, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can select the second-level domain name of the domain name to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a finite 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 one and 10 years. They may have other prerequisites when it comes to the registrant.

Domain Hosting Services

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a web hosting account where you have to accommodate it. Thus, when you write it in a web browser, it will show the web page files that you host in the account, in other words it will show your website. You can have a domain registered with a certain provider and receive the hosting service from another, even though a lot of web hosting corporations provide both services and it is more user-friendly to handle everything from one single website hosting CP tool. Either way, since the domain name registration and the website hosting package are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you have to modify a given setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named name servers. Each hosting service provider has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.supportivehosting.host and ns2.supportivehosting.host, for instance. The web hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain gives you the possibility to change the name servers and point the domain to one hosting corporation or another.

The Demand for Reliable web hosting Solutions

Once the domain is pointed to a specific domain hosting firm and is added to their web servers, you will obtain several web services. The most important one is that the web page 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 e-mail address accounts like name@my-best-domain.com and make use of webmail or a mail user agent to manage them. Whether you host a personal or a business web site, being online and being enabled to set up electronic mail accounts with your domain name are the two most fundamental things that you get with a web hosting plan. In case you own a corporate site – it will represent your business before your visitors or clients. That's why you require a reliable provider that will supply a reliable and steady website hosting service.

Reliable web hosting Solutions by 'Supportive Hosting'

Extra online services that you obtain by hosting a domain name with us are: FTP access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the possibility to set up and configure given domain records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.