Low-Priced Hosting Plans for Your Domain Names
There are two features you demand in order to run a site. The first one is a domain name that will open your web site when you type it in a browser, and the other one is a web hosting account, which is principally the hard disk storage space on a web server where the site files will be located, plus several more services that come with it. The domain and the web hosting account are two similar, yet different solutions, and you require both of them so as to have an operational website.
What is a Domain Name?
A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will select to be the web address for the site: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain can be up to 64 characters long and it is composed of two constituents – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the aforementioned illustration, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the top-level domain name. 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 TLDs to select from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given span of time between one and ten years. They may involve other preconditions regarding the registrant.
Domain Name Hosting Solutions
As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting package where you have to include it. In this way, when you write it in a web browser, it will exhibit the site files that you have in the account, i.e. it will show your web portal. You can have a domain registered with a specific registrar and get the hosting service from another, even though numerous hosting vendors offer both services and it is more convenient to manage everything from one single web hosting CP tool. Either way, since the domain name registration and the web hosting package are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To accomplish that, you have to modify a certain setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named name servers. Each host has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.sharplogics.com and ns2.sharplogics.com, for instance. The web hosting CP that you have for your domain offers you the possibility to change the nameservers and point the domain to one web hosting supplier or another.
The Necessity for Reliable Website Hosting Services
The moment the domain is pointed to a concrete domain hosting provider and is added to their web hosting servers, you will receive a number of online services. The most important one is that the web site files that you have on the web hosting server will now be shown when you type your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to set up e-mails such as [email protected] and utilize webmail or an e-mail client to administer them. Whether you manage a personal or a business web site, being accessible online and being allowed to use e-mail address accounts with your domain are the two most essential things that you get with a website hosting account. If you administer a business website – it will represent your business before your visitors or customers. For that reason you need a reliable hosting company that will deliver a reliable and steady web hosting solution.
Stable Hosting Solutions by 'Sharplogics'
Other web 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 ability to set up and configure specific domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.