Modestly Priced Hosting Plans for Your Domains

There are 2 items you require in order to set up an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will show your web portal when you type it in a web browser, and the other one is a website hosting package, which is essentially the disk storage space on a hosting server where the site files will be located, plus several more services that are included in it. The domain name and the web hosting package are 2 similar, yet different services, and you demand both of them to have a working web site.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the address for the website: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to sixty four characters long and it includes 2 parts – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the aforementioned instance, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can pick the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that is available for registration, there is a fixed number of Top-Level Domains to pick from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given interval of time between 1 and ten years. They may contain more specifications in relation to the registrant.

Domain Web Hosting Solutions

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting package where you have to add it. In this way, when you type it in a web browser, it will show the web page files that you host in the account, i.e. it will display your web portal. You can have a domain registered with one provider and get the hosting service from another, although lots of web hosts provide both services and it is more convenient to manage all services from one and the same website hosting Control Panel interface. Either way, because the domain name registration and the web hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain name to the server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you have to modify a particular setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named name servers. Each web hosting company has at least two name servers - ns1.steerwebserver.com and ns2.steerwebserver.com, for example. The website hosting CP that you utilize for your domain gives you the opportunity to alter the name servers and point the domain name to one company or another.

The Necessity for Stable web hosting Solutions

Once the domain is pointed to a concrete domain hosting provider and is added to their hosting servers, you will get a number of web services. The most important one is that the website files that you have on the hosting server will now be exhibited when you write your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to create electronic mailboxes like name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or a mail user agent to manage them. Whether you administer a personal or a business online portal, being accessible online and being allowed to set up email mailboxes with your domain name are the two most fundamental things that you receive with a hosting package. If you run a corporate website – it will single out your business before your website visitors or customers. This is why you demand a dependable provider that will provide a fast and steady web hosting solution.

Reliable web hosting Services Courtesy of 'STEERWEB'

Other services that you obtain by hosting a domain with us are: FTP access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and mailing lists, and the option to set up and edit certain domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.