Low-Cost Hosting Plans for Your TLDs
There are two items you require in order to start a web site. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your online portal when you write it in a web browser, and the other one is a web hosting package, which is inherently the data storage space on a hosting server where the web site files will be placed, plus a few more services that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting package are two associated, yet separate solutions, and you demand both of them in order to have a working web site.
What is a Domain Name?
A domain name is the alpha-numeric name that you will pick to be the 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 made of two entities – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the abovementioned instance, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the TLD. While you can choose the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that is free to register, there is a fixed number of Top-Level Domains to pick 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 impose additional specifications regarding the registrant.
Domain Name Web Hosting Services
As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a web hosting account where you have to add it. In this way, when you write it in a web browser, it will display the content that you host in the account, in other words it will open your site. You can have a domain name registered with a given company and receive the hosting service from another, although a lot of hosting vendors provide both services and it is more convenient to administer all services from one single web hosting CP tool. Either way, because the domain registration and the hosting account are different services, you have to point the domain name to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you need to alter a certain setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called name servers. Each web hosting company has at least 2 name servers - ns1.duoservers.ca and ns2.duoservers.ca, for instance. The website hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain gives you the chance to alter the NS records and point the domain name to one service provider or another.
The Necessity for Stable Web Hosting Solutions
Once the domain name is pointed to a certain domain hosting supplier and is added to their hosting servers, you will receive several web services. The most important one is that the website files that you accommodate on the hosting server will now be accessible when you write your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to create mail addresses like name@my-best-domain.com and utilize webmail or a mail client to administer them. Whether you own a personal or a corporate web portal, being available online and being able to set up electronic mail accounts with your domain name are the two most pivotal options that you receive with a website hosting plan. If you host a business website – it will identify your business before your visitors or customers. That's why you require a stable web hosting firm that will offer a dependable and steady web hosting service.
Reliable web hosting Solutions by 'DuoServers Web Hosting'
Other online services that you receive by hosting a domain name with us include: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to create and configure given domain records from your Hepsia hosting CP.