Inexpensive Hosting Services for Your Top-Level Domain Names

There are two features you demand in order to host an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will display your web portal when you write it in a web browser, and the second one is a website hosting plan, which is principally the disk storage space on a hosting server where the site files will be situated, plus several more services that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting package are two similar, yet separate solutions, and you demand both of them to have an operational web page.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the web address for the online portal: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it includes 2 parts – a Top-Level Domain (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 to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a certain number of Top-Level Domains to choose from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed period of time between one and ten yrs. They may contain more requirements concerning 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 account where you have to host it. Thus, when you write it in a web browser, it will display the content that you host in the account, i.e. it will open your web portal. You can have a domain name registered with a certain provider and receive the hosting service from another, although a lot of service providers provide both services and it is more user-friendly to administer everything from one and the same web hosting Control Panel interface. Either way, because the domain registration and the web hosting account are different 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 alter a given setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named name servers. Each hosting vendor has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.iwebclouds.com and ns2.iwebclouds.com, for instance. The web hosting CP that you utilize for your domain name gives you the possibility to modify the name servers and point the domain name to one hosting corporation or another.

The Demand for Dependable Web Hosting Services

The moment the domain name is pointed to a specific domain hosting provider and is added to their web hosting servers, you will get different web services. The most vital one is that the site files that you host on the hosting server will now be accessible when you type your domain in a browser. You will also be able to set up e-mails such as name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or an email client to manage them. Whether you administer a personal or a corporate web page, being available online and being permitted to set up e-mail accounts with your domain are the two most significant things that you obtain with a website hosting account. In case you run a business web site – it will identify your business before your web page visitors or customers. This is the reason why you require a dependable hosting firm that will deliver a fast and steady website hosting service.

Dependable web hosting Services by 'iwebclouds Hosting'

Additional services that you receive by hosting a domain name with us are: FTP access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to create and modify specific domain records from your Hepsia Control Panel.