Cheap Hosting Services for Your Domain Names

There are two features you need in order to run a web site. The first one is a domain name that will open your website when you type it in a browser, and the second one is a website hosting plan, which is fundamentally the disk storage space on a server where the website files will be located, plus a few more services that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting plan are two similar, yet separate services, and you require both of them so as to have a functioning online portal.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will select to be the web address for the online portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it is made of 2 pieces – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the aforementioned illustration, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can choose the Second-Level Domain of the domain name to be anything that is open for registration, there is a finite number of top-level domain names to pick from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given period of time between one and 10 years. They may impose other specifications concerning the registrant.

Domain Name Web Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you require a website hosting account where you have to include it. Thus, when you type it in a browser, it will show the web site files that you have in the account, in other words it will display your web site. You can have a domain name registered with one company and get the hosting service from another, even though numerous web hosts provide both solutions and it is more user-friendly to administer everything from a single website hosting CP interface. Either way, because the domain registration and the hosting account are different services, you have to point the domain to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you have to change a given setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called NS records. Each web host has at least two nameservers - ns1.h2nweb.com and ns2.h2nweb.com, for instance. The website hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain gives you the option to modify the NS records and point the domain name to one host or another.

The Necessity for Stable website hosting Solutions

The moment the domain is pointed to a concrete domain hosting distributor and is added to their web hosting servers, you will get various services. The most crucial one is that the website files that you host on the web hosting server will now be accessible when you type your domain in a web browser. You will also be able to set up mailboxes such as name@my-best-domain.com and make use of webmail or a mail user agent to manage them. Whether you host a personal or a business site, being online and being allowed to set up email accounts with your domain are the two most fundamental options that you receive with a web hosting package. In case you administer a corporate web site – it will identify your business before your web site visitors or clients. Therefore you demand a stable hosting supplier that will supply a reliable and steady web hosting service.

Trustworthy website hosting Services by 'H2NWeb'

Additional online services that you receive by hosting a domain with us include: FTP access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the possibility to set up and modify given domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.