Cheap Hosting Packages for Your TLDs

There are 2 entities you require in order to set up a web portal. The first one is a domain name that will show your online portal when you type it in a web browser, and the second one is a website hosting account, which is inherently the storage space on a web server where the website files will be located, plus a few more services that it is offering. The domain and the web hosting account are 2 similar, yet different solutions, and you need them both in order to have a working site.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will choose to be the web address for the website: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to sixty four characters long and it is composed of 2 entities – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (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 name of the domain name to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a certain number of top-level domain names to select from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a particular stretch of time between one and 10 yrs. They may entail additional stipulations regarding the registrant.

Domain Hosting Services

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you demand a web hosting account where you have to add it. Thus, when you type it in a browser, it will exhibit the files that you host in the account, i.e. it will display your web page. You can have a domain name registered with one company and get the hosting service from another, even though lots of hosting service providers provide both services and it is more convenient to handle all services from one web hosting Control Panel GUI. Either way, because the domain registration and the web hosting account are separate services, you have to point the domain to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you have to modify a certain setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called name server records. Each web hosting distributor has at least 2 name servers - ns1.aplusweb.net and ns2.aplusweb.net, for instance. The website hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain name gives you the chance to alter the name servers and point the domain to one web hosting distributor or another.

The Demand for Dependable web hosting Solutions

The moment the domain name is pointed to a concrete domain hosting distributor and is added to their web hosting servers, you will obtain several services. The most important 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 use webmail or an email client to tackle them. Whether you have a personal or a corporate site, being accessible online and being enabled to create mails with your domain are the two most essential options that you obtain with a web hosting plan. In case you administer a corporate online portal – it will identify your business before your website visitors or clients. This is why you require a reliable web hosting provider that will deliver a reliable and steady hosting solution.

Trustworthy web hosting Services by 'A Plus Web'

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