Cut-Rate Web Hosting Services for Your Domains

There are 2 features you need in order to launch a web portal. The first one is a domain name that will display your web portal when you type it in a web browser, and the second one is a web hosting package, which is primarily the storage space on a web server where the website files will be placed, plus several more services that it is offering. The domain and the web hosting package are 2 related, yet different services, and you need them both so as to have a running site.

What is a Domain?

A domain 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 sixty four symbols long and it is made of two pieces – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the abovementioned example, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can select the Second-Level Domain of the domain name to be anything that is available for registration, there is a fixed number of Top-Level Domains to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a particular interval of time between 1 and ten yrs. They may have additional preconditions in regard to the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Solutions

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting account where you have to include it. Thus, when you write it in a web browser, it will open the content that you have in the account, i.e. it will show your site. You can have a domain registered with one registrar and receive the hosting service from another, although many hosting corporations provide both services and it is more convenient to manage all services from the same web hosting Control Panel GUI. Either way, because the domain name registration and the website hosting plan are separate services, you have to point the domain to the server where it will be added as hosted. To accomplish that, you need to modify a given setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called name server records. Each hosting distributor has at least two nameservers - ns1.supportivehosting.host and ns2.supportivehosting.host, for instance. The web hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain offers you the possibility to change the nameservers and point the domain to one web hosting distributor or another.

The Need of Trustworthy web hosting Services

As soon as the domain is pointed to a particular domain hosting provider and is added to their web hosting servers, you will get various services. The most crucial one is that the web site files that you keep on the server will now be exhibited when you write your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to establish email addresses like name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or a mail client to administer them. Whether you have a personal or a corporate web portal, being available online and being able to set up email mailbox accounts with your domain are the two most pivotal options that you get with a web hosting package. In case you manage a corporate web portal – it will represent your business before your web page visitors or clients. This is why you require a trustworthy company that will provide a reliable and stable website hosting solution.

Stable Web Hosting Services Courtesy of 'Supportive Hosting'

Additional web services that you get by hosting a domain name with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the possibility to set up and edit specific domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.