Affordable Hosting Solutions for Your TLDs

There are 2 features you need in order to own a site. The first one is a domain name that will show your web page when you type it in a web browser, and the second one is a website hosting plan, which is basically the hard disk space on a hosting server where the site files will be placed, plus a few more services that are included in it. The domain name and the web hosting package are 2 similar, yet different solutions, and you require them both so as to have an operational web portal.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will choose to be the web address for the online portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to sixty four characters long and it is composed of two parts – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the aforementioned illustration, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can choose the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that is available for registration, there is a fixed number of top-level domain names to choose from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain period of time between 1 and ten years. They may involve more preconditions regarding the registrant.

Domain Name Web Hosting Solutions

As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you require a web hosting plan where you have to include it. In such a way, when you write it in a browser, it will display the web page files that you host in the account, in other words it will open your site. You can have a domain name registered with a certain company and obtain the hosting service from another, even though a lot of companies offer both solutions and it is more user-friendly to handle everything from a single website hosting CP interface. Either way, since the domain registration and the web hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you need to alter a specific setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named nameservers. Each hosting provider has at least two nameservers - ns1.myomnihosting.com and ns2.myomnihosting.com, for instance. The website hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain name gives you the possibility to modify the NS records and point the domain to one hosting service provider or another.

The Demand for Dependable website hosting Services

Once the domain is pointed to a given domain hosting provider and is added to their web servers, you will get several services. The most important one is that the web page files that you host on the web hosting server will now be accessible when you write your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to establish email accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or an email client to manage them. Whether you have a personal or a business web page, being online and being enabled to use email mailbox accounts with your domain name are the two most fundamental things that you get with a web hosting package. In case you administer a business website – it will single out your business before your website visitors or customers. That is why you demand a stable web hosting vendor that will deliver a reliable and steady website hosting service.

Dependable Web Hosting Services Courtesy of 'Omni Brand 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 create and modify certain domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.