Cut-Price Hosting Plans for Your Top-Level Domains

There are two items you need so as to open an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will open your web portal when you type it in a browser, and the second one is a web hosting package, which is basically the data storage space on a server where the web site files will be located, plus several more features that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting plan are 2 associated, yet different services, and you need both of them in order to have a running site.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric name that you will choose to be the web address for the web site: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it is composed of two components – 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. While you can select the Second-Level Domain of the domain to be anything that is open for registration, there is a set number of Top-Level Domains to choose from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain span of time between one and ten years. They may include other prerequisites with regard to the registrant.

Domain Hosting Services

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you require a website hosting package where you have to host it. In such a way, when you type it in a web browser, it will open the web content that you have in the account, in other words it will display your site. You can have a domain registered with a particular company and obtain the hosting service from another, although many hosts offer both services and it is more convenient to handle all services from one and the same CP interface. Either way, because the domain registration and the web hosting package are different services, you have to point the domain name to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you need to alter a particular setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called name servers. Each web hosting distributor has at least two name servers - ns1.colwoodhosting.net and ns2.colwoodhosting.net, for instance. The website hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain name offers you the chance to modify the name servers and point the domain name to one web hosting company or another.

The Necessity for Trustworthy 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 vital one is that the web site files that you host on the web hosting server will now be accessible when you type your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to establish mail address accounts like name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or a mail client to administer them. Whether you have a personal or a corporate web page, being online and being permitted to set up e-mail addresses with your domain name are the two most significant things that you obtain with a web hosting account. If you have a corporate web page – it will identify your business before your web site visitors or customers. For that reason you demand a trustworthy service provider that will supply a fast and steady web hosting solution.

Stable web hosting Services Courtesy of 'Colwood Hosting'

Extra web services that you receive by hosting a domain name with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to create and configure certain domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.