Reasonably Priced Web Hosting Packages for Your Top-Level Domain Names

There are 2 things you require in order to host a site. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your web page when you type it in a browser, and the other one is a hosting package, which is essentially the data storage space on a server where the site files will be located, plus several more features that come with it. The domain name and the web hosting plan are two related, yet different solutions, and you require them both so as to have a functioning web portal.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the web address for the web portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to sixty four symbols long and it contains two entities – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the aforementioned illustration, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the TLD. While you can pick the second-level domain name of the domain name to be anything that is open for registration, there is a fixed 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 spell of time between one and 10 yrs. They may contain additional stipulations concerning the registrant.

Domain Name Web Hosting Solutions

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting account where you have to host it. Thus, when you write it in a web browser, it will open the site files that you have in the account, i.e. it will display your website. You can have a domain name registered with a certain company and obtain the hosting service from another, although many hosting firms provide both services and it is more user-friendly to manage everything from one web hosting CP user interface. Either way, since the domain registration and the hosting plan are separate services, you have to point the domain to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you have to change a specific setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named NS records. Each hosting supplier has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.aplusweb.net and ns2.aplusweb.net, for example. The website hosting CP that you utilize for your domain offers you the option to change the nameservers and point the domain to one provider or another.

The Demand for Reliable Website Hosting Services

As soon as the domain name is pointed to a particular domain hosting firm and is added to their web servers, you will get a number of online services. The most crucial one is that the site files that you host on the server will now be available online when you write your domain in a browser. You will also be able to establish mails such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or an email client to manage them. Whether you run a personal or a corporate site, being available online and being allowed to set up mailboxes with your domain are the two most significant options that you get with a web hosting account. In case you run a business online portal – it will represent your business before your web site visitors or clients. That is why you require a stable web hosting company that will supply a reliable and steady web hosting service.

Stable Website Hosting Solutions by 'A Plus Web'

Additional web services that you get by hosting a domain with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, email auto-responders and mailing lists, and the option to set up and modify specific domain records from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel.