Moderately Priced Hosting Plans for Your Domains

There are two features you need so as to set up a web portal. The first one is a domain name that will open your web site when you type it in a browser, and the second one is a website hosting package, which is fundamentally the hard disk space on a server where the site files will be placed, plus a few more services that come with it. The domain name and the web hosting plan are two connected, yet different services, and you demand both of them to have a functioning online portal.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination 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 is made of 2 constituents – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the aforementioned example, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can pick the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a certain number of TLDs to select from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain spell of time between 1 and 10 years. They may include other requirements concerning the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Solutions

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you demand a web hosting plan where you have to host it. In this way, when you write it in a web browser, it will exhibit the website files that you host in the account, in other words it will open your online portal. You can have a domain registered with a given registrar and obtain the hosting service from another, even though lots of web hosting vendors offer both services and it is more user-friendly to administer everything from one web hosting Control Panel interface. Either way, since the domain registration and the web hosting plan are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the server where it will be added as hosted. To accomplish that, you need to modify a specific setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called NS records. Each web hosting firm has at least two nameservers - ns1.sharplogics.com and ns2.sharplogics.com, for instance. The web hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain offers you the opportunity to modify the name servers and point the domain to one web hosting company or another.

The Need of Stable web hosting Solutions

Once the domain is pointed to a specific domain hosting provider and is added to their web servers, you will get various online services. The most vital one is that the web page files that you accommodate on the server will now be exhibited when you type your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to set up e-mailboxes such as [email protected] and use webmail or a mail client to handle them. Whether you have a personal or a corporate web site, being online and being enabled to use email boxes with your domain name are the two most cardinal options that you obtain with a website hosting plan. In case you administer a business website – it will identify your business before your web page visitors or clients. That's why you need a trustworthy web host that will provide a fast and stable web hosting service.

Dependable Website Hosting Solutions by 'Sharplogics'

Additional web services that you receive by hosting a domain with us are: FTP access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the option to set up and edit certain domain name records from your Hepsia Control Panel.