Cheap Hosting Packages for Your Domains

There are two features you demand in order to launch a site. The first one is a domain name that will open your site when you type it in a browser, and the second one is a website hosting account, which is principally the disk storage space on a web hosting server where the web page files will be situated, plus several more services that come with it. The domain and the web hosting package are two connected, yet separate services, and you require them both to have a working website.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will pick to be the address for the web site: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to 64 symbols long and it consists of two pieces – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the abovementioned example, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can pick the SLD of the domain name to be anything that is open for registration, there is a fixed number of TLDs to pick from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed stretch of time between 1 and 10 years. They may have other requirements concerning the registrant.

Domain Name Web Hosting Services

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting package where you have to accommodate it. In such a way, when you type it in a browser, it will display the web content that you have in the account, in other words it will show your web page. You can have a domain name registered with a particular registrar and receive the hosting service from another, even though lots of hosting corporations offer both services and it is more convenient to manage everything from one web hosting CP tool. Either way, since the domain name registration and the web hosting account are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you have to alter a specific setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named NS records. Each company has at least 2 name servers - ns1.soswebdevelopment.com and ns2.soswebdevelopment.com, for instance. The hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain name gives you the possibility to change the nameservers and point the domain to one hosting vendor or another.

The Demand for Trustworthy Web Hosting Solutions

Once the domain name is pointed to a certain domain hosting company and is added to their web servers, you will receive a number of web services. The most vital one is that the web site files that you host on the server will now be available online when you write your domain in a browser. You will also be able to set up mail accounts like name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or a mail user agent to handle them. Whether you host a personal or a corporate site, being available online and being allowed to set up mail accounts with your domain are the two most important options that you get with a web hosting account. If you run a business website – it will single out your business before your web page visitors or customers. For this reason you demand a stable web hosting company that will provide a reliable and steady hosting solution.

Reliable web hosting Solutions Courtesy of 'SOS Web Development'

Other online services that you receive by hosting a domain name with us include: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, email auto-responders and mailing lists, and the ability to set up and edit certain domain records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.