Cheap Hosting Services for Your TLDs

There are two things you demand so as to own a web site. The first one is a domain name that will display your web portal when you type it in a browser, and the other one is a web hosting account, which is basically the storage space on a hosting server where the website files will be located, plus a few more services that it is offering. The domain name and the web hosting plan are 2 similar, yet separate solutions, and you demand them both in order to have an operational website.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the address for the website: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain can be up to sixty four characters long and it involves 2 entities – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the aforementioned instance, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can choose the SLD of the domain to be anything that is free to register, there is a set number of top-level domain names to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed span of time between 1 and 10 years. They may entail more requirements in relation to the registrant.

Domain Web Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you need a web hosting package where you have to host it. Thus, when you type it in a web browser, it will exhibit the web content that you have in the account, in other words it will display your web portal. You can have a domain registered with one registrar and get the hosting service from another, although lots of web hosting companies provide both solutions and it is more time-saving to manage everything from the same website hosting Control Panel user interface. Either way, since the domain registration and the website hosting package are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you need to modify a certain setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named name server records. Each hosting service provider has at least two name servers - ns1.cheaphosted.com and ns2.cheaphosted.com, for instance. The web hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain gives you the chance to change the name servers and point the domain to one web hosting company or another.

The Demand for Reliable Web Hosting Solutions

As soon as the domain name is pointed to a specific domain hosting firm and is added to their web hosting servers, you will receive different online services. The most crucial one is that the web page files that you host on the web hosting server will now be exhibited when you type your domain in a browser. You will also be able to establish email mailbox accounts like name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or a mail user agent to tackle them. Whether you own a personal or a corporate web portal, being available online and being permitted to create email boxes with your domain name are the two most pivotal options that you get with a web hosting package. In case you run a corporate web page – it will represent your business before your web site visitors or clients. This is the reason why you demand a dependable web hosting supplier that will deliver a reliable and steady website hosting solution.

Trustworthy web hosting Services by 'BigHost'

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