Budget Hosting Plans for Your Top-Level Domain Names

There are 2 things you demand in order to host a web site. The first one is a domain name that will open your online portal when you type it in a browser, and the second one is a web hosting package, which is fundamentally the hard disk storage space on a hosting server where the web page files will be located, plus a few more services that come with it. The domain name and the web hosting plan are two related, yet different solutions, and you demand both of them so as to have a working web site.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will choose to be the web address for the web page: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it is made of two entities – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the above illustration, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can pick the Second-Level Domain of the domain name to be anything that is available for registration, there is a certain number of Top-Level Domains to pick from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given period of time between one and ten years. They may impose more prerequisites when it comes to the registrant.

Domain Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you demand a web hosting plan where you have to host it. In such a way, when you type it in a web browser, it will exhibit the files that you host in the account, i.e. it will show your web page. You can have a domain name registered with a given company and receive the hosting service from another, even though a lot of web hosting companies provide both services and it is more time-saving to administer everything from a single web hosting CP interface. Either way, since the domain registration and the web hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain name to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you have to change a particular setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named name server records. Each hosting distributor has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.dnasuperhost.net and ns2.dnasuperhost.net, for example. The website hosting CP that you utilize for your domain name offers you the possibility to change the name servers and point the domain to one web hosting firm or another.

The Demand for Reliable Hosting Solutions

Once the domain is pointed to a certain domain hosting supplier and is added to their web hosting servers, you will obtain a number of online services. The most crucial one is that the website files that you host on the web hosting server will now be displayed when you write your domain in a web browser. You will also be able to set up mail address accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or a mail client to tackle them. Whether you manage a personal or a corporate web site, being accessible online and being able to set up email addresses with your domain name are the two most important options that you get with a web hosting account. In case you have a corporate web portal – it will represent your business before your web site visitors or clients. For this reason you require a dependable web hosting company that will deliver a fast and stable hosting solution.

Stable web hosting Solutions by 'DNA SuperHost'

Additional online services that you get by hosting a domain name with us are: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and mailing lists, and the option to create and modify given domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel.