Cheap Web Hosting Packages for Your Domains

There are 2 things you demand so as to kick off a web page. The first one is a domain name that will open your site when you type it in a web browser, and the second one is a web hosting package, which is essentially the data storage space on a hosting server where the website files will be located, plus a few more features that are included in it. The domain name and the web hosting account are two associated, yet different services, and you need both of them so as to have a working online portal.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the web address for the site: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to 64 characters long and it includes 2 entities – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the aforementioned example, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can select the SLD of the domain name to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a fixed number of top-level domain names to select from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed spell of time between 1 and ten yrs. They may have additional preconditions regarding the registrant.

Domain Name Web Hosting Services

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you demand a web hosting package where you have to accommodate it. In such a way, when you write it in a web browser, it will display the web content that you have in the account, i.e. it will exhibit your online portal. You can have a domain name registered with a given company and receive the hosting service from another, although lots of hosting corporations offer both services and it is more time-saving to manage everything from one and the same website hosting Control Panel user interface. Either way, since the domain name registration and the web hosting account are different services, you have to point the domain name to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you have to modify a given setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named name server records. Each web hosting firm has at least 2 name servers - ns1.www.helioshost.com and ns2.www.helioshost.com, for example. The website hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain gives you the possibility to alter the nameservers and point the domain name to one hosting service provider or another.

The Demand for Stable web hosting Services

The moment the domain is pointed to a certain domain hosting vendor and is added to their web hosting servers, you will receive various services. The most vital one is that the website files that you keep on the web hosting server will now be exhibited when you write your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to establish mailbox accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or an e-mail client to manage them. Whether you host a personal or a corporate online portal, being online and being permitted to set up e-mail address accounts with your domain name are the two most pivotal things that you get with a web hosting plan. If you host a business online portal – it will identify your business before your visitors or customers. That's why you need a stable web hosting vendor that will provide a fast and steady web hosting service.

Reliable Website Hosting Services Courtesy of 'Helios Host'

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